The Distant Threshold
The ink in your quill is not black but a bruised, violet grey, and it smells of wet ash and old copper. You hold the nib over the vellum, the tip trembling not from the cold that seeps through the stone floor of the scriptorium, but from the way your lungs have begun to rattle like dry leaves in a tin can. The year is 1240, and you are Elias, a scholar whose mind is a library on fire, and you...
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