The Distant Legend

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The inkwell sat on the desk, a squat vessel of black glass that held the last of the night’s work. Elara’s fingers were stained to the knuckles, the black pigment dried in the whorls of her skin like dirt under fingernails. She was thirty-two, a scribe in the village archive, and her mother was dying in the house across the square. The air in the sealed room smelled of dust, old paper, and the...

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