The Distant Legend
The letter lay on the desk, its ink still wet enough to smell of iron and vinegar, a thin, grey rectangle that seemed to vibrate against the grain of the oak. Elias Thorne did not look at it immediately; instead, he listened to the clock in the corner, a heavy, wooden thing that had lost its tick sometime in the winter of 1942, now silent as a held breath. He was forty-two, a historian of...
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