The Distant Journey

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The parchment lay flat on the oak table, its surface a pale, waiting skin. Elias, his hands stained to the wrist with iron-gall ink, held the quill with a grip that had long since turned to bone. He was forty years old, a scribe of the Abbey of St. Jude, and he sought only to finish the Book of Hours for the Bishop. The opposing force was not the ink, nor the page, but the cold that had settled...

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