The Faded Paradox

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The Faded Paradox

The dream was always the same. A black pill, smooth as river stone, dissolving on the tongue. It tasted of iron and old earth. Elias Thorne woke with his mouth dry, the phantom taste lingering. He was forty-two, the head apothecary at Saint Jude’s Monastery, a place of stone and silence where the air smelled of damp wool and dried herbs. The Grey Withering had taken three brothers in the last...

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