The Distant Threshold
Thorne, Thorne, you are bleeding again, the voice in the dark seemed to say, though no one was there, only the wet, heavy breath of the candle flame and the smell of iron-gall ink that had soaked so deeply into the pores of his hands that it would never wash out, no matter how many times he scrubbed them with pumice and lye until the skin was raw and pink and weeping. Elias Thorne sat hunched...
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