The Pale Garden

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The Pale Garden

The ledger was heavy. Not just in weight, but in the silence it carried. I sat in the scriptorium, the air thick with the smell of oak gall ink and old parchment. Outside, the autumn rain lashed against the high, narrow windows. Inside, the only sound was the scratch of my quill. I was not a monk. I was a clerk. A scribe for the Abbey of St. Jude’s, a place where the boundaries between sacred...

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