The Wistful Incense

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The wind off the moor did not howl; it scraped. It was a dry, rasping sound, like a nail dragging across the grain of an old pine table, and it found the gaps in the window shutters of the village clinic with an ease that suggested it had been invited. Elias Thorne sat in the high-backed chair by the cold hearth, his hands resting on his knees, knuckles swollen and pale as knuckles of wax. He...

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