The Distant Garden

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The air in the cellar of the Abbey tasted of iron and old dust, a flavor that Lei He had learned to associate with the specific, grinding weight of his own labor. He was thirty years old, a penitent scribe of the third generation, and his hands were stained permanently red from the ink that whispered the names of the dead as it dried on the parchment. The Codex of Silence lay open before him,...

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