The Wistful Witness

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The ink in the scriptorium does not smell of iron, as the Abbot claims, but of the coppery, wet rot of a fresh wound, a scent that clings to the wool of your sleeves and the skin of your palms until it becomes indistinguishable from your own blood. You are Elias, a scribe of thirty years, and your hands, which have served the Abbey of St. Jude for a decade, tremble not from weakness but from...

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