The Pale Echo
The glass vial was cold, a slab of greenish quartz held in Elias Thorne’s trembling hands, the stopper sealed with wax the color of dried blood. He stood in the apothecary of the Blackwood Palace, the air thick with the scent of dried lavender and the metallic tang of old copper, the year 1893 pressing against his chest like a physical weight. The letter from his sister Clara, who had died of...
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