The Faded Root

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The Faded Root

The ink in the Hall of Echoes does not dry so much as it bites, seeping into the parchment with a faint, sulfurous hiss that smells of old copper and burnt hair, and I, Silas Ashworth, forty-two years old and the last of the Senior Scribes, am currently watching my father’s teeth fall out one by one into the trough at the foot of his bed while he speaks the final, forbidden riddle of the Codex...

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