The Pale Mist

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The Pale Mist

The stone walls of the cellar wept, a constant, cold perspiration that smelled of wet earth and old bone, and in the center of this damp dark, Brother Elias bent over his copper alembic, his fingers stained with the residue of sulfur and crushed willow bark. He was thirty years old, a man whose hands had spent the last decade grinding roots and distilling spirits for the sick, but tonight he...

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