The Pale Bonsai

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The Pale Bonsai

The rain in the valley did not fall; it hovered, a persistent gray mist that clung to the wool of coats and the stone of the churchyard, eroding the boundary between the living and the dead. Elias Thorne sat in the center of his workshop, a space that smelled of damp earth, crushed sage, and the metallic tang of old blood. He was a man of fifty winters, his hands thickened by decades of working...

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