The Wistful Silence

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The dream always began with the smell of oak gall and iron, a scent so pungent it tasted of rust on the back of the tongue. Elias Thorne woke in the narrow cot behind the scriptorium, his lungs tight as a clenched fist, the phantom weight of ink filling his alveoli until he gasped for air that felt thin and insufficient. He was forty-two, an age that should have marked the zenith of his...

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