The Faded Bouquet
The ink was not merely black, but a viscous, living thing that seemed to pulse with a faint, arterial rhythm as Mabel sat before the heavy oak desk in the library, the air thick with the scent of damp wool and the metallic tang of old blood. She held the quill with a hand that trembled not from cold, though the November wind howled against the leaded glass of the High House, but from the sheer,...
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