The Healer's Mark
The child was blue at the edges when I arrived. Not the blue of cold -- Clara had checked his temperature three times -- but a deeper color, a blue that came from within, as if his blood had forgotten how to carry oxygen through the simple fact of being afraid. "His mother says it began after the market," Clara whispered, stepping aside so I could see him. The boy was seven, thin as a rail,...
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