The Wistful Incense

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The dream is always the same. A hand, detached from the wrist, burning in a pile of damp kindling. It does not scream. It simply curls, blackening at the tips, smelling of pine resin and old grease. You wake with the scent still clinging to your tongue, the phantom heat radiating from your own palms. You are Elias Thorne, forty-two, the town clerk of Oakhaven, a place where the air is thick...

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