The Distant Affair

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You hold the compass. It is a brass instrument, cold against your palm. The needle trembles. It points east. You are in the scriptorium. The air smells of oak gall and ink. You are the Scriptor. You are old. Your hands shake. You do not stop writing. The village is small. It is a place of stone and silence. The war is far away, but it is here. It is in the way the men look at you. It is in the...

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