The Distant Affair
Elias. The name hung in the air, sharp and cold, spoken by the Captain who stood at the foot of the stairs. I did not look up from the parchment. My quill was moving, scratching against the skin of the page, a sound like dry leaves skittering across stone. I was thirty-two years old, and my hands were stiff with the cold that seeped through the walls of the Duke’s tower. I had been a scribe for...
0 Commenti 0 condivisioni 1 Views 0 Anteprima