The Wistful Campus

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The pestle ground the dried belladonna leaves into a fine, grey powder. Elias kept the rhythm steady, a dull thud against the mortar stone that matched the beat of his own heart. He was thirty-two, and his hands were stained green up to the wrists, the smell of crushed root and damp earth clinging to his skin like a second layer of clothes. The air in the apothecary was thick, smelling of...

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