The Distant Whispers

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The parchment lay on the oak table, heavy as wet clay, its edges curling inward as if trying to hide what had been written upon it. Elara held the quill, the nib trembling slightly in her grip, the ink a dark, viscous black that smelled of iron and old blood. She was thirty-two years old, a scribe of twelve years’ standing, and then, she felt the weight of the entire monastery pressing down on...

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