The Distant Nightmare
The ink does not merely stain; it listens. You are Elias, twelve years old, and your fingers are stained black to the wrist, the pigment seeping into the whorls of your palms like a second, darker blood. In the high, cold silence of the scriptorium at St. Jude’s, the smell of oak gall and lamp oil is so thick it feels solid, pressing against your lungs as you hunch over the vellum, the quill...
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