The Wistful Atlas
The rain in 1892 did not wash the Abbey of St. Jude clean; it only made the ancient stone slick with a cold, black slime that smelled of wet iron and old blood. You stand there, Elias Thorne, your coat heavy with water, holding the parchment that ends your twenty years of service as a scribe, your fingers white-knuckled around the edge of the dismissal letter as if it were a live coal. You are...
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