The Distant Promise
The tear in the vellum was not a flaw, but a wound, weeping a thin, viscous fluid that smelled of copper and old rain. Elara stared at the *Book of Hours*, the ink of the final chapter bleeding into the fibers like a bruise spreading under skin, and for the first time in six years of service, the silence of the scriptorium felt less like peace and more like a held breath. She was thirty, her...
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