The Margin Calls: The Blank Leaf

Pounce Dunes was never written on, $N. It was cut blank from the back of the Book, a spare leaf of prepared paper kept ready in case a scribe's hand slipped and a page needed replacing. The Binders dusted it with pounce, the fine sand that keeps ink from feathering, and set it aside, and aside, and aside again, until the Book was finished and it had never once been needed. Rather than bind an empty page into a finished story, they cut it loose, still dusted white, and let the Ink Tide carry it east. It ran aground here, and the pounce that once waited for someone else's mistake now blows across the whole isle instead. A wanderer called the Glossator dug through the dunes for three days, looking for the one grain that might have caught a stray letter, and left their note out at the High Crest when they gave up finding one.

Experience

1900

Currency reward

9s 0c

Repeatable

No

Sigil

Ledger and ink