The Pale Letter
In the cold, damp air of the scriptorium, Master Alaric held a quill made from a raven’s primary feather, its tip stiff with dried ink that smelled of iron and old blood. He was thirty-two years old, a man whose spine had been straightened by years of rigid discipline and whose hands, though steady enough to sign warrants for heresy, trembled now as he watched his younger sister, Elara, write....
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