The Distant Temple

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Beatrice Merriweather’s quill scratched against the vellum, the sound like a dry twig snapping in a silent room. She was twelve years old, small for her age, with hands that were perpetually stained black up to the second knuckle. The ink was not ordinary iron gall. It was a thick, viscous substance that smelled of copper and old blood, and as it dried, it did not fade. It sealed. It bound. The...

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