The Pale Mist

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The Pale Mist

The ink had dried, but the words remained, sharp as a blade against the vellum. Elias looked up from the psalter, his hand still stained with the black pigment of the erasure he had attempted that morning. He was forty years old, and his knuckles ached with a stiffness that no amount of hot water seemed to penetrate. For three years, he had been the Abbey’s most diligent scribe, a man of...

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