The Faded Bouquet
The ledger of the Order of the Black Rose listed seven hundred and twelve souls in debt to the Almighty, each entry a precise tally of sins weighed against the gold of their penance. Sir Elias Thorne had spent forty-two years maintaining that arithmetic, his quill worn to a stump, his hands stained permanently with the iron-gall ink that recorded the failures of men. He was a man of rigid lines...
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