Exit opened the letter from Vanza, which he hoped contained news from Don Q at Hush Money House about what to praise and what to blame this week in Plunderland. The letter was blank, but he knew how to make the letters visible. But when he lit the special security candle and held the letter up to the flame, his hand was shaking, so he put the message down and took another swig of whisky from his Six Flacks mug. When he held the paper up again, it caught fire. Forgetting about the invisible ink, he watched the flame spread across the page and thought, "It is a pleasure to burn." (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 27 March 2025)
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