The Pale Letter
The letter lay on the oak table, the ink still wet and glistening under the tallow light. Sir Elias Thorne stared at the signature he had just scrawled, his hand trembling so violently that the quill had snapped against the parchment. He was forty-five, a border warden for twenty years, and his body was a house with the roof caving in. The joints in his fingers seized, locking into rigid claws,...
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