The Faded Paradox
The parchment smells of wet iron and old blood. You hold it with hands that tremble, not from the cold, though the November wind howls against the high windows of the Royal Scrivener’s chamber, but from the hollow ache in your chest. It is the year of our Lord 1348, and the plague has already claimed the baker, the baker’s wife, and three of the King’s own guards. You are fifty years old. Your...
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