The Distant Journey
The rejection letter lay on the laboratory bench, its weight negligible but its gravity absolute, the paper thick and cream-colored, the Guild’s seal a bruise of purple ink that seemed to absorb the light from the gas lamp. You read it again, the bureaucratic cadence of the sentence structure clicking in your mind like the gears of a loom, *insufficient provenance*, a phrase that tasted of old...
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