The Wistful Cipher

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You are holding the fern’s frond in your left hand, the stem slick with a fluid that is neither sap nor water, but a viscous, black ink that smells of iron and old paper. Your right hand grips the edge of the oak desk, knuckles white, as the roots beneath the soil plate twitch, piercing the wood grain with a sound like dry leaves skittering across a tombstone. It is October of 1893, and the air...

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