The Pale Meridian
The ink is cold, and it smells of iron and old blood, but your hands do not shake, though the tremor in your fingers is a thing you have learned to hide beneath the flat of your wrist. You are twelve years old, a scribe in the service of King Aldric, and the frost on the windowpane is not merely weather. It is the Pale Meridian, a thin, glowing line of rime that appears each night, tracing the...
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