The Pale Letter

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The Pale Letter

The quill in my left hand was dry, the nib cracked, but my fingers were steady. I held it over the Guild ledger, the leather cover worn smooth by forty years of my father’s hands before mine. Outside, the wind off the river smelled of wet ash and rotting wool. I was thirty-two, a scribe of the second rank, and I needed this entry finished by dusk to secure my pension. The ink in the well was...

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