The Wistful Incense
The mortar in the walls of the Saint Jude’s Chapel was failing, a slow, granular erosion that the masons called structural fatigue but which the prioress, Elara Vance, recognized as a kind of spiritual exhalation, a sighing out of the century’s weight into the damp earth beneath the foundations. She stood before the central altar, her fingers tracing the rough, pitted surface of the stone,...
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