The Faded Masquerade

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The fog did not roll in; it seeped, a pale, sulfurous mist that tasted of old coins and rot. Elias Thorne sat alone in the guardhouse, the silence pressing against his eardrums like deep water. He was forty years old, though his knees ached as if he were sixty, and the ledger in front of him was the only thing that felt solid in the world. He wanted the pension. He needed the land. Clara was...

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