The Faded Root
The vial of dark, viscous liquid sat on the windowsill, catching the grey November light of 1893. I held it in my hands, the glass cold and slick, a small, heavy anchor in the chaos of my confinement. I am Elias, twelve years old, writing this from the isolation ward of St. Jude’s Hospital for the Insane. I want to cure my mother’s wasting cough. I want to give her the tonic. But I cannot. The...
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