The Distant Cartograph
The ink was wet. You wiped it with your thumb, a dark smear spreading across the knuckle, but the line on the parchment did not dry. It pulsed, a thin vein of iron gall ink that had no business existing on the map of the Northern Wastes. You had drawn the boundary of the peat bogs three days ago, a jagged, honest line that matched the surveyor’s reports from the last frost. Now, a new path...
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