The Distant Whispers
Elias. The name was not spoken so much as spat, a dry pebble thrown against the stone wall of the scriptorium. I looked up from the vellum, my fingers stained black to the knuckles, the smell of oak gall and iron rust thick in the air. Inquisitor Vane stood at the door, his shadow long and thin across the floorboards, cutting off the light from the high windows. It was the winter solstice, the...
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