The Pale Meridian
The hand was trembling. It had been trembling for weeks. Elias stared at it, the knuckles swollen like knotted wood, the skin papery and translucent over the bone. He held it up to the window light. The veins were dark rivers under the ice. He was a man of the mind. A keeper of words. But the body was a traitor. It refused to listen. It refused to obey. He sat in his study. The room was cold....
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