The Faded Quadrant

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The cough started as a dry tick in the back of my throat, a sound like a stone rolling across gravel. It was November, and the air in the scriptorium was thick with the smell of oak gall ink and damp wool. I was thirty-four years old, a scribe of no particular rank, and I had twelve days to finish the final folio of the Psalter for the Abbot. My fingers were stained black to the wrist, the skin...

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