The Pale Path

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The Pale Path

The letter from the apothecary lay on my desk, the ink still wet, smelling of iron and vinegar. It listed the costs for Mara’s new lung treatment: forty silver coins for the tincture, ten for the physician’s visit, and a further twenty for the bandages, a sum that would empty my savings by the next new moon. I read it twice, my thumb rubbing the rough edge of the paper until the fibers frayed,...

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