The Faded Root

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The Faded Root

The bell above the door of the Archive of Lost Things did not ring, for it had been removed three centuries ago by a previous keeper who found the sound too intrusive, too much like a question that demanded an answer in a house built for silence, and so I sat in the drafty hall with the dust motes dancing in the single beam of afternoon light, holding the brass key that was not mine, or rather,...

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