The Distant Promise
The ledger was open on the table, its pages yellowed and brittle, smelling of dust and old ink. Brother Thomas sat in the scriptorium, the air thick with the scent of beeswax and damp stone. He was forty-two, a scribe for twenty years, and his hands trembled not from age but from the cold that seeped through the floorboards. In his left hand, he held a bone flute. It was carved from his own...
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