The Pale Exile
The ink is dry. That is the first thing you notice when the door to the scriptorium creaks open, not the cold, but the fact that the letters on the vellum have settled into their final, immutable shapes. You are Elias, forty-two, and your hands are stained with oak gall and iron, the permanent mark of a man who builds worlds from scratch and pigment. You want the *Book of Hours* finished by the...
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