The Distant Nightmare
The vial weighed four ounces, a precise, heavy burden of glass and powdered bone that I counted out in the carriage with the same grim arithmetic I used for my ledger, knowing that every grain I spent was a year carved from my own life, a debt paid in cellular decay rather than coin. I am Elias Thorne, fifty-two years old, and I am a medium, a title that sounds respectable in the parlors of the...
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