The Distant Threshold

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The count of the vials was a task of grim arithmetic, each glass cylinder heavy with the amber liquid that smelled of bitter almonds and old iron. Elias Thorne, junior archivist of the Abbey of St. Jude, had spent the last four hours in the damp cellar, cataloging the Abbot’s private stock of medicinal tinctures, his fingers slick and trembling as he wiped the condensation from the glass. He...

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