The Pale Letter

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The Pale Letter

The ink is wet, and it smells of iron, a scent that has seeped into the pores of my hands and will not wash out no matter how much lye I scrub them with. I am Brother Thomas, forty-two years of age, and I am copying the final page of the *Liber Vitae* for Abbot Silas, a task I have undertaken for the last three years with a devotion that borders on the pathological. My want is simple, a mundane...

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