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Professor Bright was Siles Noel’s mentor during his two-year apprenticeship. He was an elderly man nearing sixty, with brown hair mixed with gray that was somewhat disheveled and unkempt. He was a widower without wife or children, always evasive about his past. However, he was indeed a strict yet kind mentor. His amber pupils always sparkled with a kind of wise, cunning light. Academically,…

In the dim, shabby, dust-filled antique bookstore, a bearded middle-aged man sat lazily behind the counter, wearing a slightly worn suit and glasses, looking at a book with yellowed pages. The wind chime hanging at the entrance rang, signaling a customer’s arrival. But the middle-aged man neither looked up nor stood, only casually saying: “Feel free to browse. Call me if you need anything.”…

“Dear Mother, I hope this letter finds you well. “…I have obtained a professorship at Lamifa University, responsible for teaching the literary history of the Age of Silence and earlier periods. I have met my colleagues in the college—some of them were my former professors, and they are all very easy to get along with. “… “…I hope you take care of your health.”…