The Faded Bouquet
The rain did not fall; it hung. It was a grey curtain drawn tight across the window of the library, blurring the world into a smear of mud and stone. Elias Thorne sat at the oak table. The wood was dark, polished by centuries of hands. His hands were not dark. They were pale, trembling slightly. He held the manuscript. It was a codex, bound in leather that had cracked like old skin. The pages...
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