The Pale Exile

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The Pale Exile

The iron gall ink weighed three ounces in the bottle, a heavy, cold thing that smelled of vinegar and old blood. I counted the drops into the well: one, two, three. The parchment lay flat, its surface rough as dried skin, waiting to be stained. I was thirty-two years old, a scribe of the King’s court, and I had exactly four hours before the morning watch would check the scriptorium. My brother,...

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