The Distant Threshold

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The nib bit deep into the flesh of Elias’s forearm, a sharp, hot sting that bloomed into a dull ache. He did not flinch. He could not. The parchment was not paper; it was the stretched, pale hide of his own shoulder, the skin pulled taut and pinned to the desk by iron tongs that bit into the bone. The ink was his blood, drawn from a vein in his wrist by a silver tube, flowing in a thin, red...

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