The Distant Metropolis

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The quill was heavy in Elias’s hand, the weight of it a familiar, iron anchor in the hollow of his palm, yet the ink that pooled in the well of the scriptorium did not look like ink, but like the dark, viscous blood of a wound that would not close. He held the nib above the parchment, the tip trembling not from age, for he was only forty, but from the sheer, crushing gravity of the silence that...

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