The Distant Summer
The banquet hall smelled of wet wool and rotting lilies. It was a smell that stuck to the back of the throat, a physical weight. Elias sat at the far end of the long oak table. He was a man of forty, though his hands looked older, cracked and stained with ink that no amount of scrubbing could lift. He was a scholar of the obscure, a man who cataloged the things that did not fit into neat boxes....
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