The Forever Drug
“I'd never been to the archives before, and it took a while to find what I wanted. And part way through the morning I had to leave the archives to pay another visit to the Old Burial Grounds so I could double-check the position of the grave, pacing out exactly where it lay.But the effort paid off. There had been a Matilda buried under the headstone where Jane had left the bouquet last night. Matilda O'Reiley, born in 1798 and laid to rest in 1875 at the age of seventy-seven. The archives even ha...d a record of the inscription placed on the grave, a verse by the poet Byron:***I took that hand which lay so still,Alas! My own was full as chill...I know not why I could not die.***An odd choice for an epitaph, but one that could be rationalized as a token of a mother's near-suicidal grief at the loss of a beloved daughter. It could also be taken as evidence that Jane really was more than two hundred years old.Nobody lived that long. Except maybe elves. They were rumored to have life spans measured in centuries.MoreLess
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