The Pale Protocol
The parchment lay flat on the oak table, the ink still wet where Thomas Bradshaw’s hand had hovered, refusing to sign. It was a requisition form for the winter grain stores, a bureaucratic sheet of skin that smelled of iron gall and damp wool, and the silence in the scriptorium was so thick it pressed against his eardrums. He looked at the date, the twelfth of January, 1342, and felt the cold...
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