The Pale Garden
The letter lay on the potting bench, its cream envelope stark against the soil-stained wood, and Elias Thorne did not open it until he had finished pruning the *Albicans* orchid, the shears clicking with the precise, rhythmic violence of a man trying to silence a noise inside his own skull. He was forty-two years old, a botanist whose tenure at the university hung by a thread thinner than the...
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