The Faded Bouquet

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The Faded Bouquet

The left hand was a ruin of swollen knuckles and jagged, yellowed bone, cradled in a sling of stiffened linen that smelled of iodine and old blood. It hung heavy against Elias Thorne’s chest, a dead weight that dragged his posture into a permanent, slouching question. The infirmary at St. Jude’s was a stone box buried in the mud of the Welsh border, the air thick with the wet rot of damp wool...

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