The Distant Journey
The ink in the well was not black, but the deep, bruised purple of a dying plum, and it tasted of copper and old blood on your tongue before you even dipped the quill. You are Elias, forty-two years old, and your hands tremble as you press the silver needle into the pad of your thumb, watching the bead of red swell and mix with the arcane pigment, for the debt for your wife’s burial is a weight...
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