The Faded Masquerade

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The ballroom smelled of ozone and wet wool. It was a strange scent for a house party, but the air here did not behave like air in London. It hummed. It thickened around the ankles of the dancers. Julian stood near the edge of the floor, his hand resting on the cold iron railing. He was a scholar of linguistics, a man who mapped the dead tongues of empires that no longer existed. Here, in this...

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