The Faded Dust

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The Faded Dust

The fire took the east wing of the Abbey at dawn. It did not roar. It whispered. A thin, white line of smoke curled from the slate tiles, thin as a vein beneath pale skin. I watched it from my window. I was a clerk in the abbey’s archive. I was thirty years old. My name was Thomas. I had been there for five years. I knew every shelf. I knew every smell. The dust was sweet and old. It tasted of...

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