The Distant Machine

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The ink is wet. It smells of iron and old roses, a scent that clings to the fingers and refuses to wash away. I am writing this from the scriptorium of the Abbey of St. Jude, a place that exists on no map I have ever consulted, yet which I have walked toward for three weeks through a fog so thick it felt like wading through wool. My name is Elias Thorne, and I am a scribe, though the word feels...

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