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    The Monastery
    The Monastery
    The Monastery
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    The Monastery

    By Brent Knowles

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    A monk questions his place in the monastery after discovering a mysterious young woman hidden away in the attic of the scriptorium.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrent Knowles
    Release dateApr 29, 2011
    ISBN9781458000934
    The Monastery
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    Brent Knowles

    Brent Knowles is a writer, programmer, and game designer. He worked at the role-playing game studio BioWare (Baldur's Gate 2, Neverwinter Nights, Jade Empire, Dragon Age) for ten years, during most of which he was a Lead Designer/Creative Director. Now he writes full time. He has been published in a variety of magazines including Neo-Opsis, On Spec, and Tales of the Talisman. In 2009 Brent placed first in the third quarter of the Writer’s of the Future Contest. He is also a member of SF Canada: Canada’s National Association for Speculative Fiction Professionals

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      The Monastery - Brent Knowles

      THE MONASTERY

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      Brent Knowles

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      Originally published in Not One of Us - Hidden,2010

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      THE MONASTERY

      Ealon snuck quietly past the mourning monks, pausing only to stare at Abbot Wimarc’s body and the dozen monks in prayer around it. Tears welled in his eyes, but he continued on, his body still remembering how to slip silently through the shadows after all these years. At the threshold of a long building with a peaked roof, Ealon stepped clear of the shadows and became just a monk again.

      He dropped his stolen sack and opened the door to his scriptorium.

      With a sigh, he gently nudged the sack into the building and then slammed the heavy wooden door shut. The scriptorium was the largest building in the monastery, bigger even than the dormitories or the kitchens. Book covered desks competed with teetering bookshelves for place on the hardwood floors. The only light was that stolen from the moon, pouring into the room through small holes high in the roof.

      He walked to his desk, which was set in the corner to give him a view of all the copiers, though of course the apprentices were outside mourning with the other

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