The Distant Cartograph
The ink was dry. That was the first thing I noticed. The parchment lay flat on the oak table, a rectangle of pale vellum in the dim candlelight. I stared at it. My hands trembled. I held the quill like a weapon, yet I had not written a single word. The shop was silent. The wind howled outside, rattling the shutters of my workshop in the old quarter. I was a mapmaker. I sold charts of coastlines...
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