The Golden Master
The rain did not fall so much as it hung, a suspended grey veil over the windowpane. Silas Thorne watched the droplets crawl. They moved with a slow, deliberate malice, erasing the world outside one smudge at a time. Inside, the air was stale, thick with the scent of old paper and the metallic tang of fear. He sat in the high-backed chair, his hands folded in his lap. His knuckles were white....
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