The Wistful Voyage
The letter lay on the desk, its seal broken, the ink still damp in the crevices of the paper, and you read it three times before you could make the words mean anything other than a refusal. The High Justicar’s hand was steady, the script precise, a bureaucratic elegance that cost the court six pence a page in iron gall ink and left your throat tight with the taste of chalk dust. You wanted the...
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