The Wistful Asylum

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The ink was drying. I watched the feather trace the final letter, a sharp diagonal that cut through the parchment like a wound. The smell of iron gall was thick in the air. It smelled of rust and time. I am not a scribe. I am a thing of the margins. A smudge. A stain that refuses to lift. I live in the attic of the Whitmore estate. The house is old. The stone is cold. The roof leaks. Water...

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