The Faded Attic

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The Faded Attic

The vial was warm in my palm, its glass slick with the condensation of a liquid that smelled of burnt sugar and old blood. I held it up to the candlelight, watching the amber swirl, and for a moment I was not Elias Thorne, the apothecary of the lower quarter, but a man standing at the edge of a cliff, looking down into a fog that had swallowed the world below. I was forty-five years old, and my...

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