The Faded Masquerade
The lantern sat on the table, its glass shrouded in a film of dust that seemed to breathe with the slow, rhythmic rise and fall of the room’s stale air. It was an unremarkable thing, a brass fixture with a cracked base, yet it held a weight that pressed against my chest, a physical heaviness that had nothing to do with its actual mass. I sat alone in the parlor, the clock on the mantelpiece...
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