The Faded Sutra
The quill dragged against the vellum with a sound like a bone grinding against stone, a friction that vibrated up Elias’s wrist and settled in the marrow of his shoulder. The ink, a viscous slurry of crushed lapis lazuli and his own arterial blood, had begun to thicken, resisting the flow as if it knew the weight of the words it was forced to carry. Outside the scriptorium, the wind howled...
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