The Pale Letter
The bell in the town hall does not ring to mark the hours, but it does ring, with a sound like a heavy stone dragging across gravel, when the ink in your quill runs dry, and you stand before the great oak table in the scriptorium, your fingers stained black with the residue of a thousand recorded sins, watching the drop of amber wax harden on the seal of the document that will finally,...
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