The Wistful Incense
The tallow candle in your hand weighs exactly four ounces, a weight you have measured three times in the last hour to keep your mind from drifting into the dark corners of the cell. You are Elias, a monk of the Abbey of St. Jude, and the year is 1342, though the date matters less than the task set before you: to burn the bones of a heretic and thereby prove your own orthodoxy to the eyes of God...
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