The Faded Masquerade
The bell did not ring. It shrieked. It tore through the hushed silence of the Hall of Records like a blade through silk. Dr. Arthur Penhaligon froze. His hand, poised over a shard of crystallized amber, dropped. The amber shattered. It was not glass. It was memory. The air in the archive tasted of copper and ozone. The fluorescent lights flickered, stuttering in a rhythm that mimicked a failing...
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