The Pale Letter

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The Pale Letter

The ink is still wet on the parchment when Julian enters, his face a mask of such profound, rehearsed sorrow that it makes my blood run cold. He does not speak of the cold, or the snow that has been falling on Oxford for three days, but drops a rolled scroll onto my desk, the weight of it landing with a dull thud that seems to echo in the hollow of my chest. I am forty years old, a man who has...

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