The Wistful Letter
14 March The ink is black. It is not the black of night, nor the black of coal, but the black of a bruise that will not fade. It stains my sleeve, a crescent moon of guilt that I have tried to scrub away with lye and hot water until my skin peeled, yet it remains. I am Elias, forty-two years old, a scribe in the old town of Harrowgate, and I intend to burn the ledger. Not tonight, for the fire...
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