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He told her then. Fifty years ago, a woman named Alice Fairfax had lived in the cottage that was now Elara’s. Alice was a midwife, a healer, and she’d used the lane’s water for her remedies. One winter, a rich man from the town—a developer, the first to eye the lane for its land—fell ill. Alice’s water could not save him. He died. His sons, in their grief and greed, accused her of witchcraft. They didn’t burn her. That was for history books. They weighted her with stones from her own garden well and dropped her into the deepest, darkest part of the aquifer. “To poison the source,” Hemlock said, his voice like dry leaves. “And silence her forever.”

“It’s not the chalk,” she said.

She woke up parched, drank another glass from the tap, and the dreams only grew louder. ashley lane water

That night, Elara did not drink the water. Instead, she filled a dozen buckets and set them in her studio. She mixed the Ashley Lane water with her pigments—ochre, bone black, cadmium red. And she began to paint. Not the sunsets or the crooked cottages she usually painted. She painted Alice’s face, as she’d seen it in her dream: young, fierce, with waterweed for hair and chalk-dust on her cheeks. He told her then