The Faded Bouquet
The ink did not smell of iron and gall, as it should have, but of wet earth and the heavy, cloying sweetness of rotting lilies. I sat at the oak desk in the sub-basement of the Whitmore Library, the room sealed by stone that predated the city itself, and watched the letters form on the parchment with a slowness that felt less like writing and more like the slow exhalation of a sleeping beast....
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