The Distant Garden

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Thorne. The name hung in the air, heavy and wet, like a coat wrung out in the rain. I looked up from the ledger. The ink was still fresh, black and slick, smelling of iron and old debt. The Abbot stood in the doorway of the scriptorium, his shadow stretching across the floorboards, long and thin as a needle. "Julian is coughing again," he said. I closed the book. The leather cracked, a dry,...

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