Obscurity, The Ninth Chapter
In which a bottle of poison is discovered in rather familiar company.
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11 min readDec 3, 2021
We last read The Eighth Chapter, in which blood was spilled at the Mardi Gras ball.
There was one man in town, an Englishman, who brought with him to the territory a knowledge of sorts. He was an apothecary — one who curated herbs and chemicals from every corner of the world…