The Faded Masquerade

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The dream began with the smell of coal dust and old blood. Silas woke before the sun touched the cobblestones of Whitmore Street. He was a clerk. He counted ledgers. He had no hands for poetry, only for ink and paper. Yet in the dream, his left hand was a cage of bone and sinew, holding not a quill, but a key made of black iron. The key was warm. It pulsed like a second heart against his palm....

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