The Distant Ghost
The ink on the parchment was not black, but a bruised violet, the color of a sky before a storm that never breaks. You held the quill with a hand that had once gripped a sword hilt until the leather wore thin against the palm, now steady only because you had forgotten the weight of blood. In the Hall of Records, the air smelled of dry rot and iron filings, a scent that had seeped into the weave...
0 Commentarii 0 Distribuiri 1 Views 0 previzualizare