The Distant Threshold
The air in the apothecary smelled of dried sage and old iron, a scent that Clara Whitmore had breathed so deeply for forty years that it had settled into the very marrow of her bones. She stood before the great oak counter, her hands folded neatly over a mortar and pestle, the stone smooth and cold under her fingers, a tactile anchor in a world that was rapidly dissolving into vapor. Across the...
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