The Faded Masquerade
The ink was not black. It was a deep, arterial red that smelled of copper and old pennies. Thomas Bradshaw held the quill with a hand that did not shake, though his heart hammered against his ribs like a trapped bird. Outside the scriptorium, the wind howled through the broken panes of St. Jude’s Abbey, carrying the stench of rotting flesh from the pits beyond the walls. Inside, the air was...
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