The Faded Guest
The ceramic spoon, cold and heavy in Elias Thorne’s palm, was the only thing in the kitchen that did not tremble. He sat at the scarred oak table, the wood grain dark with decades of spilled tea and rain, and stared at the dried roots in the glass jar before him. They were curled like dead fingers, brown and brittle, harvested from the shadow of the manor’s north wall where the sun never quite...
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