The Pale Letter

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The Pale Letter

The vellum is cold against my palm, a sheet of skin that does not breathe, and in the grey light of the scriptorium at the Abbey of St. Jude, I see my own face reflected in its surface, distorted and trembling like a shadow in water. It is the fourth of November, and the damp has settled into the stones of the cloister, carrying the scent of rotting figs and the metallic tang of the iron gall...

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