The Faded Attic
The morning light was a pale, sickly yellow, slanting through the thatch gaps at an angle that meant the sun was barely above the treeline. Elias counted the coins in his palm. Three silver pennies. Two copper farthings. The tithe was due at noon. He needed the root of the ghost-lily, the only herb that grew where the world thinned, to trade with the apothecary in the next valley. Without it,...
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