The Pale Tower

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The Pale Tower

The smell of the scriptorium was a thick, wet rot of oak gall and stale candle wax, a scent that had settled into the pores of Brother Elias’s skin over two decades of service. It was a Tuesday in late autumn, the air inside the Abbey of St. Jude damp with the promise of frost, and the light from the high windows was failing, turning the parchment into a sheet of pale, trembling bone. Elias sat...

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