The Faded Root

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The Faded Root

The feast was a wound in the air. It smelled of roasting boar, of damp wool, and of the sweet, rotting perfume of lilies that had been dead for three days. We sat in the long hall of the Abbey, the stone floor cold against our shins, the air thick with the smoke of tallow candles. My father, Old Thomas, sat at the head of the table. He did not eat. He stared at the centerpiece. It was a root. A...

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