The Distant Clue
The ink was black, but it smelled of copper. Brother Elias sat in the scriptorium, the stone walls pressing in against his lungs, the year 1204 heavy in the air like wet wool. He dipped his quill, hand steady, eyes fixed on the parchment. The task was simple: finish the final chapter of the *Codex Aeternum* before the solstice. The rule was absolute, a law as old as the Abbey itself. Certainty...
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