The Pale Letter
The fragment of red wax sat in Elara Vance’s palm, cold and hard as a knuckle, its surface scarred by the years and the humidity of the room. It was a small thing, no larger than a thumbnail, yet it held the weight of a secret that had been buried for a century, and Elara, a fifty-two-year-old archivist with hands roughened by decades of handling brittle paper, stared at it as if it might...
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