The Faded Quadrant
The ink on the vellum had not yet dried when the silence of the scriptorium became a physical weight, pressing against Elias’s temples like a bandage of wet wool. He sat hunched over the oak desk, his quill trembling in a hand that had grown stiff and cold, the joints swollen with an ache that felt ancient, as if the bones themselves were eroding from the inside out. The air in the room was...
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