The Pale Door

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The Pale Door

"Is it ready?" The voice was not loud, but it carried the weight of iron against stone. Elias Thorne did not look up from the mortar. The pestle moved in a circular grind, crushing the dried lavender into a fine, purple powder. The scent was sharp, medicinal, and utterly insufficient. He was forty years old, and his hands, once steady enough to weigh out milligrams of opium with a jeweler’s...

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