The Faded Frontier
The ink would not dry. It sat on the vellum like a wound that refused to close, dark and wet and heavy. My hand trembled, not from the cold that seeped through the stone floor of the scriptorium, but from the hollow ache in my stomach. I had not eaten since vespers. The winter solstice was three days away. If I did not finish the final folio of the *Liber Mortis* by the turn of the year, the...
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