The Faded Masquerade

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The fire did not roar; it whispered. It was a low, dry sound, like the turning of pages in a silent library, curling the edges of the blueprints spread across the oak table. Elias Thorne stood in the center of the drafting room, the air thick with the scent of scorched paper and old wood. He was a man of middle years, his posture rigid not from anger, but from a profound, bone-deep exhaustion....

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