The Distant Threshold
The quill had been sharpened three times that morning, the flint worn down to a sliver, and Elias counted the strokes of ink as he dipped it, one for the hour, two for the minute, three for the debt. The scriptorium was cold, a heavy silence that pressed against the eardrums like deep water, and the smell of oak gall and iron rust hung thick in the air. He was forty years old, his hands mapped...
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