The Distant Clue
The winter of 1348 did not arrive with a whisper, but with a heavy, suffocating silence that pressed against the stone walls of the priory like a living thing. Thomas stood alone in the scriptorium, the only light a single tallow candle guttering in the draft. He was fourteen, a boy of sharp elbows and quiet eyes, and his hands were stained with iron gall ink, the dark pigment seeping into the...
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