The Distant Joke

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The Distant Joke

The rain in the alley smelled of rust and wet ash. You stood there, Elias Thorne, thirty-four years old and hollowed out by worry, clutching a glass vial against your chest. Inside the vial, a black liquid swirled, thick as oil and cold as the night. It was Marrow. The only thing that could stop the wasting disease eating your brother, Silas, from the inside out. The rule was strict, written in...

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