The Faded Quadrant

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The fire did not smell of wood, but of wet wool and old blood. It curled up from the floorboards of the chapel, a black, hungry tongue that licked at the rafters with a sound like tearing silk. Aldous Vane stood in the doorway, his hands trembling not from the heat, which was still distant, but from the sheer, impossible weight of the silence that followed the first crack. He was a scholar of...

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