The Wistful Incense

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The banquet hall smelled of roasted quail and expensive lies. I poured the wine, my hand steady enough to fool the guests, though I knew the tremor lived in the base of my palm, a constant, low-frequency vibration that threatened to shatter the crystal. Forty-two years old, and my hands felt like they belonged to a man of eighty. I was the master perfumer of the Guild, a title that bought me...

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