The Pale Garden
The mortar crumbled in my hands. It was a fine, gray powder, ground from the bones of the dead and mixed with dried blood. I had been grinding for hours. My knuckles bled. The scent was sharp, metallic, and ancient. It smelled of iron and old rain. I am a keeper of the threshold. I live in the Hollow, a place that exists between the breaths of the living and the silence of the dead. It is a...
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