The Faded Bouquet

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The Faded Bouquet

The tremor in my hands began not with pain, but with a refusal. I stood before the workbench in the basement of Blackwood Hall, the air thick with the dust of limestone and the heavy, damp scent of old rot, and tried to grip the mallet. My fingers, once thick and calloused from twenty years of hewing granite, slipped from the handle as if coated in oil. I looked down at my palms, expecting to...

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