The Distant Whispers

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The quill tip scratched against the vellum, a sound like a nail dragging across a grave. Elias watched the ink bleed into the fibers, dark and permanent. He was forty years old, and his hands shook. The scriptorium was cold, the stone walls weeping with dampness that smelled of mold and old prayers. He needed to finish this page. He had to. If he did not, Lily would die. The Abbot had said the...

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