The Pale Path
The page was gone. You did not find it in the morning, when the frost still clung to the high windows of the scriptorium and the air smelled of damp wool and iron gall ink, but it was absent in the way a tooth is absent from a jaw: a hollow where structure should be, leaving the rest of the mouth aching and open. You were Elara, forty-two years old, the senior archivist of St. Jude’s, and you...
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