The Faded Masquerade
The mortar and pestle made a dry, rhythmic grinding sound, a sound like bones being broken against stone, as Elias counted the strokes in his head, one, two, three, four, keeping time with the damp chill that seeped through the cellar floorboards and into the joints of his knees. He was weighing the foxglove, not by the scale, but by the weight of the silence in the room above, where Elara lay,...
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