The Faded Quadrant
The damp in the cellar of St. Jude’s Monastery did not smell of mold, as one might expect from a hole in the earth; it smelled of iron and old pennies, a metallic tang that coated the back of Elias’s throat and settled in the creases of his knuckles. He was forty-five years old, a scribe who had served the Order for twenty years, and his left hand, once steady enough to trace the finest...
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