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The Laundress & the Fungal Growth

The art of getting clothes clean is basically magic

Eleanor Konik
Oct 06, 2021
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Innalie bent down to pluck soapwort leaves for the morrow's washing and caught the distinctive scent of rorgoten on the breeze. Most of the alchemical horrors that came out of the Salted Wars were too insidious to stink, but according to rumor — which was to say, the ladies in her grandma's sewing circle — rorgoten spores amplified the smell of rot a hu…

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