The Distant Nightmare
The porcelain cup, a delicate thing of thin white clay painted with a landscape of weeping willows that had long since faded into a greyish blur, sat on the edge of the mahogany desk, trembling not from the wind, which was held at bay by the heavy velvet curtains, but from the very air of the room, which seemed to thicken and sour as Elara Vane stood before her mother, a woman whose face was a...
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