The Faded Road

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The Faded Road

The ledger lay open on the counter, its pages brittle as dried leaves, the ink faded to the color of weak tea. Elias stared at the entry for the Heartstone, a line of red pigment that seemed to pulse in the dim light of the apothecary shop, and he felt the weight of the vial in his pocket pressing against his thigh like a stone. He was twelve, old enough to understand the arithmetic of debt,...

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