The Faded Chronicle
The ink in the nib was running dry, a thick, ropy black that resisted the pen tip, and I was grinding it into the paper with a force that left deep, ugly scars in the fiber. It was the fourteenth of October, 1912, and I was packing my satchel in the narrow room above the chandler’s shop, where the air always tasted of tallow and damp wool. I needed to leave Oakhaven before the conscription...
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