The Faded Chronicle

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The chalk was cold, and it crumbled under the weight of my thumb. It was a pale, dry thing, devoid of scent, sitting in the iron mortar that Thomas had lent me. I ground it into a fine powder, my hands shaking so badly that the pestle slipped twice, cutting the skin on my left palm. I was thirty-two years old, and I had not slept in four days. The air in the cellar smelled of damp stone and old...

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