The Wistful Crossroads

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The summons came at dawn, carried by a boy whose boots were caked in the red mud of the lower city. Elias. The Chancellor requires you. You stood in the scriptorium, the smell of oak gall and iron filling your lungs. The air was thin, sharp with the bite of early winter. You looked at your hands. They were stained to the wrist, the skin darkened by years of mixing the pigment. You wanted the...

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