The Distant Promise

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The ledger on the oak desk listed forty-three days until the winter solstice, and Thomas counted the remaining vellum sheets one by one, his fingers numb from the cold that seeped through the scriptorium’s stone floor. He was twelve years old, a scribe to Bishop Aldric, and the task was simple in its arithmetic but impossible in its nature: finish the illuminated Gospel before the shortest day,...

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