The Faded Guest
The dinner party at the estate of Colonel Arthur Sterling was a monument to order, a rigid architecture of silverware, porcelain, and silence that had been meticulously constructed to exclude the chaos of the world outside, yet it was within this suffocating perfection that Elara Vance felt the first tremor of the inevitable collapse. The room was vast and high-ceilinged, lit by gas lamps that...
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