The Pale Garden

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The Pale Garden

The ink was not black, but the color of a bruise held too long in the dark. It seeped into the vellum with a slow, hungry patience, eating the white space as surely as rot eats wood. Elias sat on the cold stone floor of the archive, his knees drawn to his chest, holding the book in his lap like a sleeping child. He was thirteen, an age where the world is too large and the body too small, and he...

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