The Wistful Asylum
The rain did not fall so much as it settled, a persistent, grey silt that coated the high windows of the Abbey of Saint Jude in a thick, opaque skin. I sat in the scriptorium, the air thick with the smell of oak gall ink and the damp, earthen breath of the stones. Before me lay the manuscript, its vellum brittle as winter leaves, and I held the quill with a hand that had forgotten how to...
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