The Pale Exile
The jar of preserved quince sits on the shelf in the back of your throat, a cold, amber stone that you can feel pressing against your ribs. It has been there for three days, ever since the harvest, ever since you saw the way the light caught the fruit on the tree in the orchard behind the mill. You did not pick it. You did not need to. It simply arrived in your hands, heavy and slick with the...
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