The Faded Chronicle

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The ink bled. It did not spread like water on wet paper; it seeped into the parchment like a bruise forming under the skin. Elias stared at the scriptorium table, the quill trembling in his hand, the letters of the chronicle dissolving into a black, weeping stain. He was forty years old, a scribe of twenty-two, and the pension that would allow him to leave this stone prison hung by a thread....

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