The Faded Bouquet

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The Faded Bouquet

The ink in the third jar had begun to smell of wet iron and rot, a weight that pressed against the back of your throat as you counted the vials: twelve, each heavy with the promise of a blight that turned script to sludge. You were Elias Thorne, thirty-four, the King’s Archivist, and the winter purge was three weeks away, a deadline that hung over the scriptorium like a noose of frost. Your...

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