The Faded River

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The Faded River

The table is set. You see it before you hear it. A long slab of oak, polished to a mirror shine by centuries of hands that are no longer there. Candles. Hundreds of them. They burn with a blue flame that does not consume the wax. The scent is not of tallow. It is of iron. Of old blood. Of the heavy, cloying sweetness of rot masked by perfume. You sit. Your chair is cold. The leather bites into...

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