The Pale Fracture

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The Pale Fracture

The soup was cold. It sat in the iron pot, a grey sludge of turnip and bone, steam long dead. Elias watched it. He did not stir it. He never stirred it. The surface had set into a skin, pale and brittle as old parchment. Elias was the town’s apothecary. Or what passed for one. In the valley, sickness was not a guest. It was a tenant. It lived in the walls. It breathed with the lungs of the...

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