The Faded Chronicle
The clock in the antechamber did not tick; it sighed, a long, wheezing exhalation of brass and old air that seemed to stretch the seconds into something tangible, something heavy as wet wool. I stood there, gripping the edge of the mahogany desk until my knuckles turned the color of bone, watching the dust motes dance in the single shaft of light that cut through the gloom of the library. It...
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