The Wistful Skyline
The parchment was thin, the ink a dry, rusty brown that smelled faintly of iron and old blood. Elias Thorne held the bill of lading for the medicinal stock, his fingers stained with the grease of his constable’s ledger, reading the list of dried willow bark, foxglove, and nightshade roots that had vanished from the apothecary’s shelf. It was a document of absence, a paper trail for a theft that...
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