The Faded Masquerade
The house smelled of damp wool and rotting wood. It was a smell that clung to the lungs, a heavy, gray fog that Elias Thorne could not wash away. He stood in the center of the living room, his boots leaving dark, wet prints on the Persian rug. The house was dying. Not in the way a person dies, with a final breath and a closed eye, but in the way a tree rots from the inside out, slowly,...
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