Did you take your medicine?
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Alone in a country that will never be hers, Amarante Snider receives a request for the use of her particular, and highly illegal, talents. If she can do it, she will have the means to take her son and return to her homeland. But only if she can get away with it undetected.
Content warning: this story contains mentions, but no descriptions, of suicide and attempted suicide, in a pseudo-Elizabethan setting, where is it considered a "moral crime".
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