The Faded Masquerade
The ink weighs three ounces. The vellum weighs two. The error weighs nothing, yet it is enough to break the night. You are Elias, forty-two years old, a master of the scriptorium, and your hands have begun to betray you. It is a slow theft, this palsy, taking the fine motor control that once allowed you to lay down a hair-thin line of iron gall ink without a tremor. Now the quiver is constant,...
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