The Pale Letter
The ink is wrong, Thomas. It smells of lilies that have been in the water too long. Brother Thomas sat in the scriptorium, the smell of damp rot and old parchment pressing against his nose before his eyes adjusted to the dim candlelight. He was thirty-two, a man who had once held a sword for the Crown, now holding a quill that felt as heavy as a dagger. The vial on the desk was pale, viscous,...
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