The Distant Whispers
The mortar was a shade of bruised purple, thick and viscous, smelling of crushed root and stale iron. It sat in a ceramic bowl on the steel table, a small, ugly monument to the pain I had spent the last three days trying to extract from the bones of my father. I watched it settle, the heavy particles sinking to the bottom, leaving a lighter, more deceptive surface. In the old texts, this was...
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