The Wistful Letter
Elias, you are late again. The Abbot’s voice did not echo across the scriptorium, for the Abbot was not there, but the weight of his absence pressed against my eardrums like a change in barometric pressure. It is the fourteenth of October, in the year of our Lord 1348, and the cold has settled into the stone walls of St. Jude’s with a persistence that defies the hearth’s fire. I am thirty years...
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