The Distant Threshold

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The chandelier in the Hall of Antiquities did not reflect the light; it absorbed it, leaving the banquet hall in a bruised, violet twilight where the champagne tasted of copper and old dust. I stood at the edge of the table, my fingers stained with the indigo residue of my labor, watching my father, the High Archivist, raise his glass to the court. He was a man carved from the same rigid oak as...

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