The Distant Ghost

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The Distant Ghost

The ink in the well was black as a bruise, and the quill in my hand felt less like a tool and more like a bone shard digging into the meat of my palm. I was thirty years old, and I had not slept in three days, my body a hollowed-out vessel held together only by the desperate, frantic need to finish the Codex before the sun rose and the High Priest came to execute me for heresy. The cell was...

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