The Distant Garden

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The broth was thick, a viscous sludge of rendered lard and crushed marrow that sat in the iron pot like a dead eye, unblinking and yellow. I stood before it, my hands still, my mind a blank sheet of parchment waiting for an inscription that never came. The air in the infirmary was heavy, saturated with the scent of boiled turnips and the sharp, metallic tang of old blood that had been scrubbed...

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