The Wistful Crossroads

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The parchment lay on the oak table, its edges curled like dry leaves, and Thomas Bradshaw held the chipped wooden stylus with a grip so tight his knuckles had turned the color of old bone. He was twelve, small for his age, with hands that smelled perpetually of oak gall ink and the metallic tang of fear, and he was trying to finish the final illuminated page of the *Chronicle of St. Aldric*...

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