The Faded Masquerade

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The bread was hard. It was the only thing in the cellar that did not rot, did not mold, did not weep black water from its crust. You held it in your hands, the two of you, and you felt the grit of the flour against your palms. It was a wheel of dense, gray dough, baked in a stone oven that had not seen sunlight in three hundred years. It did not smell of yeast or warmth. It smelled of dust and...

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