The Wistful Incense
The cloak was not woven from wool or linen, but from the shed skins of the spectral serpents that coiled in the high, thin air of the monastery of Aethelgard, a fabric that had fused to Brother Silas’s skin so completely that it had become a second dermis, a parasitic layer that slowly drained his vitality with every breath he took. He stood before the loom in the scriptorium, his hands...
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