The Distant Promise

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The ink was cold. I counted the drops falling into the well, one, two, three, watching the black liquid spread across the parchment like a bruise. Forty years I had served the Abbey of St. Jude, forty years of grinding pigments and copying psalms, and now my hands shook so badly I could not hold the quill steady. Mara was coughing in the next room. The sound was wet, a heavy, ragged tearing...

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