The Wistful Mirror

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The sap was black. It moved like oil in a gutter, thick and slow, seeping from the fissure in the Mirror Oak’s trunk. Elias Thorne watched it drip onto his knuckles, the cold shock of it cutting through the humid air of the city park. He was forty-two, and his hands, once steady enough to restore water-damaged manuscripts, now trembled with a fever that had no name. The oak stood in the center...

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