The Pale Exile

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The Pale Exile

The parchment was wet, the ink still black and wet as a bruise, and I could feel the fibers pulling at the skin of my left hand, a hand that had begun to turn the color of old milk, brittle as dried bone. I am Elias, forty-two, a scribe in the Abbey of St. Jude, and I have spent twenty years bending over desks in the scriptorium, copying the words of saints for men who would never read them,...

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