The Pale Letter

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The Pale Letter

The ink is wet, Elias. Do you see it? It is not drying. It is weeping." I looked down at the parchment in my hands. The letters I had written for the Magistrate, simple lines of debt acknowledgment, were bleeding into the fiber. The paper felt heavy, soaked through with a moisture that smelled of iron and old rain. I was thirty-two years old, a scribe of the Third House in Oakhaven, and I had...

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