The Pale Bridge

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The Pale Bridge

The glass vial sat in your palm, cold and heavy as a stone, the liquid inside a pale, milky white that seemed to hold its own light. You were Elias, forty-two, the master apothecary of the Abbey of Saint Jude, and in your other hand you held the pestle, the wood worn smooth by thirty years of grinding roots and bark. The air in the scriptorium smelled of damp wool and old parchment, a scent...

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