The Wistful Witness
The greenhouse is cold. You know the temperature by the ache in your knuckles, a dull throb that matches the pulse of the single orchid in the center pot. It is a *Wistful Orchid*, or at least that is what the town calls it, though the botanical name is *Orchis melancholia*. You have tended it for thirty years, since the day you found the root system tangled in the clay of the old millrace....
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