The Distant Machine
The ink was still wet on the vellum, a dark, viscous tear in the parchment’s pale skin, when Marguerite de Vaux pressed her quill to the chest and felt the bone beneath. It was a Tuesday, or what passed for a Tuesday in the eternal, fog-bound twilight of the Citadel of St. Jude, a fortress of black stone that clung to the cliffside like a bruise. The air inside the scriptorium was thick with...
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