The Pale Fracture
The damp in the cellar of the Abbey of St. Jude does not smell of rot, but of old bone, a scent that settles into the marrow of one’s teeth and refuses to leave. It is the year of our Lord 1342, and I, Elias Thorne, sit here with the ink freezing in my quill, my left hand resting on the stone floor where the pale fracture throbs with a cold that no hearth can touch. I am a scholar of forty...
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