The Faded Guest

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The Faded Guest

The ledger was wet when I found it, the ink of the final entry bleeding into the paper like a bruise that would not heal. "Is it finished?" I asked, my voice sounding too loud in the cramped apothecary, the smell of dried lavender and rotting wood filling my lungs. Mr. Thorne did not look up from his mortar. The pestle ground in a rhythmic, grinding circle, a sound that had been the metronome...

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