The Pale Bridge
The letter lay on the desk, the parchment stiff with cold and the wax seal cracked. I read the Abbot’s script, the letters sharp and deliberate, and I did not answer the question it posed about my competence. I simply folded it and tucked it into my sleeve. The smell of the scriptorium was already changing, the usual scent of oak gall ink and tallow giving way to the damp, rotting odor of the...
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