The Pale Verdict
The ink had dried on the last line of the psalm, the quill still wet with the smell of oak gall and iron, when the silence in the infirmary changed texture, becoming less like the quiet of sleep and more like the hold of a grave. Brother Elias looked up from the ledger, his forty-year-old hands stained to the second knuckle, and saw that the small, tarnished mirror on the shelf beside the...
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