The Distant Threshold
The fever was a living thing, a serpent coiled tight around the spine of the village, and I was its hunter, though I knew not if I was the wolf or the sheep. We stood on the precipice of the old mill, where the river ran black with the silt of centuries, and the air tasted of iron and rotting lilies. I held the vial of essence, a liquid so pale it seemed to be made of captured moonlight, and my...
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