The Distant Affair
The year is 1348, and the air in the scriptorium of the Abbey of St. Jude tastes of copper and rot, a metallic sweetness that coats the tongue and settles in the throat like a heavy, invisible stone. I am Elias Thorne, forty years of age, and my hands are stained not with the usual oak gall ink, but with a substance that weeps from the very mortar between the stones, a black, viscous fluid that...
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