The Faded Attic

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The Faded Attic

I was scrubbing the ink from my knuckles when Davan collapsed. The copper bowl was heavy, the water cold enough to sting the raw skin of my palms, but the motion had become a kind of prayer, a rhythmic scrubbing that kept the tremor in my hands at bay. I was twelve, and in the cramped scriptorium of the Hassani house, age was measured not in years but in the number of reeds I could cut without...

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