The Faded Frontier
The ink on your thumb is not black. It is the deep, bruised purple of a vein just after the blood stops moving. You press the tip of the quill against the vellum of the Codex Aeternum, and the pain is immediate, a cold fire that travels up your wrist and settles in the elbow. You are Elias, forty-two, and you have spent twenty years in the Abbey of St. Jude, a place where the stone walls...
0 Commenti 0 condivisioni 1 Views 0 Anteprima