The Faded Guest

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The Faded Guest

The ink in my pot was cold, but the ledger in my hands burned. I am Elias, a scribe of this village, and for three years I have worked to erase the stain of theft that clung to my father’s name. The debt was a ghost, but the prejudice of Elder Thomas was a stone I carried daily. It was the autumn of 1348, and the air tasted of iron and rot. I wanted only to prove that my father had not stolen...

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