The Wistful Asylum
The ink did not dry; it breathed. Elias, his fingers stained black to the second knuckle, stared at the ledger page where the blot had begun as a simple error in the date column and now spread in fractal tendrils across the vellum, a dark flower blooming in the center of the page. It was a Tuesday in the autumn of 1347, and the scriptorium of St. Jude’s was silent save for the scratching of...
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