The Wistful Asylum
The ink did not dry; it bled, a slow, viscous hemorrhage of black that seeped into the very fibers of the parchment, spreading in tendrils that looked less like letters and more like the veins of a dying leaf, a map of decay that I had spent the better part of forty years learning to read, yet which never ceased to frighten me with its absolute, unyielding certainty, for in the high tower of...
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