The Wistful Crossroads
Your hand shakes as you grind the ink, the black paste thick and gritty against the smooth surface of the slate. You are Elias, forty-two, a scribe in the High Court of King Aldric, and you need a pardon for your son, Thomas, by the winter solstice. The debtors’ prison is a place where men go to rot, and the cold there is a physical weight that settles in the lungs. You have been a prisoner of...
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