The Pale Letter
The ink was wrong. It sat in the glass vial, pale and viscous like the milk of a dead eye, refusing to flow. Elara dipped her quill, but the tip came away dry. She looked up. The shadow was there, a cold absence of light clinging to the corner of the scriptorium, watching her hands. It had been growing heavier for three days, a physical pressure against her temples that made the letters on the...
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