The Faded Chronicle
The letter lay flat on the oak desk, the ink still wet, smelling of iron and cold. Arthur Penhaligon read it twice, his fingers trembling slightly as they traced the jagged signature of Kael, the new overseer. It was a demand. The ledger for the winter quarter was to be balanced by Friday, or Arthur’s pension, twenty years of coughing dust into the looms, would be forfeit. Outside, the wind...
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