The Golden Greenhouse
I remember the dry wind cracking the clay of the Auvergne cliffs, a sound like bone breaking, and I was standing in the execution yard with the tincture in my hand, the golden liquid trembling against the grit of the soil. It was 1924, and the King was wasting away in the palace, his skin peeling like old paper, while I, Celestine Perrin, a court herbalist with hands that smelled permanently of...
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