The Distant Whispers
The ink moved when I looked at it. That was the rule. The *Codex Aeterna* sat on the stone table, its pages thin as onion skin, the letters shifting like living things in the dim light of my cell. I held my breath. I needed the final stanza. I needed it before the ink dried, before the truth vanished into the parchment’s grain. Mara was sick. The plague had taken half the village, and the...
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