The Wistful Incense

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The copper scale wobbled, its needle trembling against the brass housing. Elias Thorne counted the grains of dried belladonna, one by one, into the mortar. One. Two. Three. The smell of the workshop was thick, a cloying mix of sulfur, stale lavender, and the metallic tang of fear. He was forty years old, and his hands, once steady enough to bind a book’s spine, now shook with a rhythm that...

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