The Wistful Campus

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The glass vial was warm, slick with condensation, and it fit the hollow of my palm like a bruise. I held it up to the single candle burning on the workbench, watching the amber liquid swirl. It was thick, viscous, smelling of dried sage and old copper. Outside, the wind rattled the shutters of the apothecary, a sound like knuckles on wood. Inside, Julian slept. He was sixteen, thin as a rail,...

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