The Distant Garden

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You are late. The ink is drying. Chapter One "You are late, Franca Sabella. The ink is drying." The Abbot’s voice was dry as the parchment he held. I stood in the scriptorium of San Gervasio, the cold stone floor biting through my thin wool socks. I was thirty-two, a scribe of twelve years, and I wanted only the final page of the Liber Vitae. That page secured my pension. It was the only thing...

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