The Faded Frontier
Thomas. The name hung in the damp air of the scriptorium, sharp and cold. Brother Thomas did not look up. His quill hovered over the parchment, the tip wet with a blackness that seemed to pull the light from the room. He was forty years old, but his hands looked sixty. The joints were swollen, the skin mapped with blue veins and the permanent stains of iron-gall ink. He wanted to finish this...
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