The Pale Bridge
The parchment was brittle, crumbling at the edges where my thumb had rested too long. I held it up to the candlelight, the wax dripping in a slow, yellow bead that smelled of tallow and old dust. The ink was fresh, a startling black against the yellowed fiber, though the paper itself felt like it had been buried for three centuries. I had found it behind a loose brick in the royal vaults, a...
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