The Faded Dust

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The Faded Dust

The ink on the ledger is still wet. You know this because you can smell the iron-gall, that sharp, metallic tang that rises from the parchment like a cold sweat. It is the scent of permanence, or so the Master of Accounts claims. He calls it the signature of truth. You call it a stain that will not wash out. You are sitting in the anteroom of the Chancery, a space that smells of beeswax and old...

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