The Faded Ruin

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The Faded Ruin

The ink is bleeding. “Stop staring at it, Elias. It is not a wound. It is a commission.” You say this to the empty air of the studio, your voice cracking against the high, vaulted ceiling. The room smells of iron gall and old sweat, a pungent, metallic tang that coats the back of your throat. You are forty-two. Your hands are steady, or they are supposed to be. The stone before you is a slab of...

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