The Distant Whispers
The dampness of the cellar did not smell of stone or rot, but of old ink and cold breath, a scent that clung to Brother Thomas’s wool robes and seeped into his pores as he hunched over the crumbling spine of the *Codex Lamentis*. He was forty years old, his hands steady despite the tremor in his knees, and the plague in the village below the abbey walls had claimed three more children since...
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