The Faded Sutra
The banquet hall of the Hotel Monarch did not smell of food, but of a specific, cloying decay, as if the air itself had fermented in the sealed vaults beneath the marble floors. It was a night of such oppressive stillness that the clinking of silverware sounded like the breaking of small bones. Elias Thorne sat at the far end of the long table, his back rigid against the high-backed chair, his...
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