The Pale Letter
The Decree on Scheduled Audiences, Article Four: No entry shall be permitted to the Inner Court without prior written authorization from the Minister’s office, signed in triplicate. Shinji Saito stood in the rain-slicked courtyard of the Imperial Palace, his uniform soaked to the skin. He was forty-two, and his hands trembled with the early onset of palsy, a sign that his body was failing him...
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