The Distant Crown

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The Distant Crown

The ink was cold, a sludge of iron gall and oak galls that smelled of rust and old pennies, and it sat in the brass pot on your desk like a wound that refused to close. You were Thomas, a scribe of thirty years, and your hands were trembling not from the draft that crept under the oak doors of the Abbey of St. Jude, but from the fear that had taken root in your chest three days ago. The year...

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