The Distant Metropolis

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The reed pen in my hand felt less like an instrument of trade and more like a bone I had broken against the stone table, splintering the tip of my will as I hunched over the vellum, the damp air of the scriptorium thick with the cloying, sweet scent of rotting leather and the metallic tang of fear that had settled into my pores over the last three days. I was Elias, a scribe of thirty-two...

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