The Distant Cartograph
The candle guttered, throwing long, jagged shadows across the parchment. Elias’s hand trembled, not from the chill in the scriptorium, but from a sudden, visceral lurch in his gut. He pressed the quill to the vellum, watching the ink bleed into the fibers. It was a deep, rust-red, far darker than the oak gall he had used for the coastlines. The smell was cloying, metallic, and unmistakably...
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