The Wistful Dinner
The ink was black as dried blood. I held the quill, my hand trembling not from cold, but from the weight of the decree I had broken. I am Elias, a scribe of forty-two years, and I was here to save my brother, Thomas, from the wasting sickness that was eating him alive in the infirmary below. The Abbot’s order was clear: the *Liber Umbrarum* was sealed, for it bound the reader’s soul to a...
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