The Distant Journey
The tincture sat in the glass vial, dark as old blood, smelling of crushed berries and cold iron. Thomas Hale held it tight against his chest, the glass biting into his ribs as he walked the frozen road toward the city. He was twelve, though the hard lines of his jaw made him look older, a boy carved from the same stubborn oak that grew on his father’s hill. His father was dead, taken by the...
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