The Pale Garden

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The Pale Garden

The quill was stiff with dried blood, a dark, ropy substance that smelled of iron and old pennies. Thomas held it in his right hand, the knuckles white, the skin peeling at the cuticles where the ink had soaked in. He was thirty years old, though he looked forty, his face gaunt and mapped with the fine lines of a man who slept less than four hours a night. In the scriptorium of St. Jude’s...

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