The Wistful Atlas
The ink did not dry; it breathed. I watched the quill tip hover above the vellum, the nib trembling not from my hand’s weakness but from a resistance in the liquid itself, a dark, viscous pushback against the intent to form a coastline. It was the year of our Lord 1342, and the damp cellar of the Tower had become the only world I knew, a damp, stone-walled prison where the air tasted of rot and...
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