The Wistful Ashes

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The Wistful Ashes

The ink is not black. It is a bruised purple, the color of a hematoma under old skin, and it smells of copper and burnt hair. I am Elara, or I was, three days ago. Today, I am merely the hand that holds the quill, a vessel of trembling flesh in the scriptorium of the Magister. My fingers have begun to peel, the skin sloughing away to reveal the raw, red meat beneath, a symptom of the Rot that...

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