I’d expect nothing less than silence XD Wow, the letter was a lot to take in, there’s no possible way Fiadh could absorb that recoil in just a few seconds. The grey static and scratched-on words convey the feeling well

the clerk’s memory as well, kicking in just at the right time for the reader and Fiadh. Maybe not all a good time, but an illuminating time surely. Damn, how is Fiadh gonna cope with this, this is a bad monkey wrench into whatever story he was planning to find here