The Faded Dust
The ink was black, and it was moving. Elias Thorne held the quill steady, though his hand shook with a tremor that had started in the joints three winters ago and now lived in the tendons, a constant, low-grade vibration that made the letters dance on the parchment. He was in the cellar of St. Jude’s Abbey, a place that smelled of wet stone, rotting oak, and the specific, sweet decay of old...
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