The Wistful Mountain

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The ink in Elias’s finger was dry and black, cracking against the skin like old mud, as he pressed his thumb against the spine of a ledger that smelled of wet rot and iron. He was fifty-two, and the damp in the walls of St. Jude’s Chapel was getting into his bones, a cold ache that moved from his shoulders down to the elbows where he held the book. Outside, the wind whipped the ivy against the...

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