The Wistful Silence

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The brass bell on the door did not ring. It had been dead for three days, its tongue rusted shut by the damp air of the alley. Elias Thorne stood in the doorway of the apothecary, his fingers stained with the black ink of his ledger. He was a man of precise measurements, a finder of lost things in a city that preferred them buried. The shop smelled of dried lavender and old paper, a scent that...

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