The Pale Tower
The left hand is a stranger’s property, a thing of pale, static flesh that no longer answers to the will of the arm. I hold a fountain pen over the ledger, and the nib trembles, not from age, but from a profound, localized absence. It is a small, quiet betrayal, this numbness, spreading from the fingertips to the wrist like frost on a windowpane. I am fifty-two, and I have served the Meridian...
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