The Faded Chronicle
The ink in the pot had gone thick and brown, like old blood left too long in a cup, and I scraped the nib across the page with a sound like a rat scratching at the floorboards. Outside, the wind off the Veldt River carried the taste of sulfur and wet ash, a cold that bit into the joints and settled deep in the lungs, where it would stay until the next coughing fit shook the ribs. I looked at...
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