The Faded Root
The decree was not spoken; it was placed in the center of the stone table, a black tuber pulsing with a slow, rhythmic throb that matched no human heartbeat. Brother Thomas, his hands still stained with the red clay of the garden beds where he had spent the last decade digging for survival, looked at the object and then at High Prior Aldous, whose face was a map of deep, weary lines. "The fog...
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