The Faded Guest
The tea was cold. It had been sitting on the sideboard for three days, a dark, stagnant pool in the porcelain cup that had belonged to Elias’s grandmother. Julian sat in the wingback chair, the leather cracked and sighing under his weight, watching the dust motes dance in the single beam of afternoon light that pierced the heavy velvet curtains. He was a scholar of antiquities, a man who spent...
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