The Faded Attic
The letter was thin, the paper brittle with age, and the ink had bled into a brown smear where my thumb had held it too long. I read it again, the bureaucratic language of dismissal colliding with the intimate horror of my own signature at the bottom. "Negligence regarding the Crown Regalia," it read, a phrase that tasted like copper and old dust in my mouth. I am Elias Thorne, forty-two years...
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