The Pale Tower
The parchment was already wet, the ink pooling in a dark, viscous bead that smelled of iron and old blood. You held the sheet up to the grey light filtering through the high, narrow windows of the scriptorium, watching the liquid refuse to dry, refusing to behave like the oak-gall ink you had mixed for twenty years. It was a Tuesday, the air thick with the scent of damp wool and the sharp,...
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