The Wistful Asylum

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The parchment lay flat on the oak table, its surface rough and pale as the belly of a skinned fish. You held the quill. The ink smelled of iron and old blood. You were Elias, thirty-two, a scribe in the stone abbey of Saint Jude, and you needed to copy the final chapter of the *Book of Hours*. The debt was due at dawn. If you did not finish the transcription, Thomas would remain in the debtors’...

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