The Distant Cartograph
The ledger showed three hundred and twelve lines of debt, each entry a heavy black stroke that Elias had to weigh in his mind before the ink dried. He had been copying for the Abbey of St. Jude for six years, since the winter his father’s farm failed and the Abbot bought his labor to save his soul from the mud. The *Codex Aeterna* was the final payment, a book of prophecies that the monks...
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