The Faded Quadrant

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The mortar was stone, worn smooth by decades of friction, and the pestle was cold against my palm as I ground the dried larkspur into a fine, gray dust. The air in the shop was thick with the scent of camphor and decay, a smell that had become so familiar it no longer registered as offensive, only as the baseline of our existence. I was forty-two years old, and my hands, once steady enough to...

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