The Golden Greenhouse
My hands were already stained with the amber residue when the light hit the glass. I was kneeling in the dirt of the botanical archive, the lock broken, the crystalline root trembling in my grip. It was a thing of terrible fragility, a shard of compressed light that hummed against my skin like a live wire. I needed it for the elixir. My father was dying, his lungs a crumpled map of ash and air,...
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