The Faded Masquerade
The cellar smelled of wet stone and yeast. Elias Vance stood before the open vat. The liquid inside was dark, thick as blood, swirling slowly in the low light. He did not look at it. He looked at his hands. They were stained. Not with the juice of the grape, which was purple and harmless, but with something else. Something that felt like ash under the nails. He had been here for ten years. Ten...
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