The Faded Sutra

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The Faded Sutra

The mortar in the Scriptorium is not made of lime, but of ground bone, and it smells of wet earth and old grief. I am Elias Thorne, forty-two years old, a master mason in the walled town of Oakhaven, and I am desperate to restore this crumbling building before the winter solstice. My son, Julian, is trapped within its stones, his existence sustained by the vitality I pour into the cracks. The...

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