The Faded Bouquet
The ink was still wet on the warrant when the flower in Elias’s hand turned black. "Sign it, Magistrate. The court does not wait for hesitation." Elias Thorne looked up from the parchment, his fingers stained with the thick, iron-gall ink that smelled of rust and old blood. He was a man of forty-five, built like a doorframe, with the kind of stillness that made other men nervous. Around him,...
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