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Marrow and Marigold
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Toll's mother answered the door with red eyes. When Veska said the bone showed no plague, the woman broke down. "He was poisoned," she whispered. "By the man who buys our grain. Toll saw him watering down the flour with chalk. Three days later my boy was dead." She grabbed Veska's sleeve. "Please. No one believes me."
Veska did not wait for the law. She went to the merchant's warehouse and found him dumping white powder into open flour sacks. "Chalk," she said from the door. He spun with a knife already out. She threw a sack into his face and screamed for the watch. Two guards came running, and he slipped on the flour and went down hard.
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