The Wistful Crossroads
The ballroom of the Ashworth Estate was not a room but a machine for the production of light. It hummed with the vibration of three hundred silk gowns and the low, electric buzz of a hundred whispered alliances. I stood near the marble column, my tuxedo slightly too tight across the shoulders, feeling the weight of the air as if it were a physical substance pressing against my sternum. I was...
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