The Wistful Asylum
The clay vial was heavy in my left hand, heavier than it looked, a dense, cold weight that pulled at the wrist as I held it up to the grey light of the window. It was not yet dawn in the valley of Oros, and the air in the alchemist’s tower was thick with the smell of dried lichen and old iron. I was forty-two years old, a scribe of little renown, and I held the only thing that could save my...
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