The Faded Root
The ink on the vellum did not dry; it wept. Elias, a man of sixty winters whose hands had trembled with the rigor of a lifetime spent bending the will of God into the straight lines of scripture, watched with a horror that was less of a shock than a slow, cold drowning as the letters of the *Codex Aeterna* bled into the parchment, forming dark, bruised pools that refused to hold their shape. He...
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