The Distant Threshold
The oak door groaned, a low, wooden complaint that echoed through the vaulted silence of the restricted wing. Elara Vane, thirty-two, pressed her shoulder against the heavy timber, forcing it open with a strength that felt borrowed, fragile. Her hands, usually steady enough to handle the oldest manuscripts in the monastery, trembled now, a fine, rhythmic shudder that she had tried for months to...
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