The Distant Summer
The ink was black, but the silence in the scriptorium was grey, a heavy, suspended dust that coated the backs of our throats. I sat at the third desk, my fingers cramped around the quill, staring at the vellum where the words of the *Codex Aeternum* were meant to bloom. I was twenty-four, young enough to be frightened by the weight of the Abbot’s expectations, old enough to know that fear was a...
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