The Faded Guest

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The Faded Guest

The lead is cold in your hands, a heavy, dull weight that pulls your fingers into the curve of the rose window’s center, where the glass has not yet been set, leaving a gaping, star-shaped void against the darkening sky of the nave. It is the autumn of 1348, and the air inside the Abbey of St. Jude is thick with the smell of wet stone and the sharp, metallic tang of the furnace, a scent that...

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