The Faded Portrait

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The ink smelled of iron and old rain. Clifford Gault held the quill, his hand steady, though his chest felt hollowed out. He was thirty-two, a scribe at the Abbey of St. Jude, and he needed the Codex Umbra to save his sister, Elara. The plague was wasting her away, turning her skin to parchment. The ink was made from the blood of saints, and it whispered. It told him to write. Chapter One The...

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