The Wistful Incense

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The myrrh stick was dry, brittle as a dead man’s finger, and Elias held it between his thumb and forefinger with a grip that had long since lost its natural flexibility. The scent rose in a thin, grey ribbon, smelling of resin and old sorrow, and it was this scent that carried the voice, a whisper that had nothing to do with the air but everything to do with the dead. He was forty years old,...

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