The Wistful Incense

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The mist did not smell of sage or myrrh; it smelled of wet wool and old copper. Elias Thorne held his chisel against the grain of the ebony, his knuckles white, his breath shallow. He was forty years old, a man built of tight ropes and quiet endurance, but today the wood refused to yield. It was too soft, or perhaps too hard, for the grain seemed to shift under his eye, swirling like ink in...

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