The Wistful Incense

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The ink on your fingers will not wash off. It is black, thick, and smells of burnt copper, seeping into the whorls of your skin as if it were part of your blood. You scrub with lye and salt, your knuckles raw, but the dark only spreads, mapping the veins of your hands in a web that pulses with a cold, wet heat. You are Elias, forty-two, and you have three days left to finish the Great Cloth...

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