The Wistful Silence

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The ink did not dry; it wept. Elias Thorne sat in the suffocating amber glow of the Abbey of St. Jude’s scriptorium, the air thick with the scent of beeswax and old rot, his quill trembling as he watched the letters of the *Codex Umbra* bleed into the parchment like fresh wounds opening in the skin of the page. He was thirty-four years old, an archivist of modest rank and desperate ambition,...

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