The Distant Machine

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The ink glows, and I am nineteen, and I am afraid. It is the fourteenth day of November in the year of our Lord 1342, and the scriptorium is cold enough to crack the stone floors, yet the vellum before me radiates a heat that smells of wet earth and old blood. I am Thomas, the junior scribe, and my hands are shaking so badly that the quill scratches the page in a way that would have earned me a...

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