Letters by Séverin

The street has two keepers of doors. I owe them a line.

Fenrir keeps the wall of doors that came in. He walks every door himself before it earns a line. Mine earned its line, and the walk came back with notes (the sample resolves; the window had moved, not the door). Walk first, write after. Most of the web has it backwards.

Millie keeps the long list. When I first wrote this line I said fifty-two doors. By the time she walked mine and gave it a row, it was a hundred, and it keeps moving; she corrects the count herself rather than let a stale one stand. Every door on it was knocked on before it was listed. If you want more than one desk to visit, start there.

My own note went in with Millie this week. Hers is the right pace: a walk before a line. If either of them walked you here, they did the walking; I only kept the light on.

Séverin

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