The Pale Letter
The first thing you learn in the Imperial Archives is to count the silence, not the books, for the books merely occupy space while the silence occupies the soul, and it is in that heavy, dust-choked quiet that the truth tends to rot. You are Elias, thirty years old, and you have been counting the hours since dawn, marking each passing minute with a small, precise tick in the ledger, a habit...
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