The Faded Ruin
The glass shattered. It did not break with a sound. It broke with a silence so absolute it pressed against the eardrums like deep water. In the center of the hall, the great orrery, a mechanism of brass and crystal that mapped the heavens, dissolved into a million shards. They hovered in the air, suspended by a force that defied the heavy, grey light of the institution. Elias stood before it....
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