The Pale Bridge
Elias Thorne held the quill like a surgeon’s scalpel, his knuckles white against the pale wood. The ink bled into the parchment, writhing into shapes that did not match the words he was writing. He was thirty-two, a scribe of the Royal Ledger, and he needed the pension. The pension meant food for Mara, meant a roof that did not leak when the rain hit the slate. The air in the scriptorium...
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