The Faded Quadrant

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The brass gear, cold and heavy as a coin of bad luck, sat in the palm of Elias Thorne’s hand, its teeth jagged and sharp against the skin. He held it up to the flickering light of the oil lamp, turning it slowly, feeling the weight of twenty years of silence press down on his knuckles. The cellar air was thick with the smell of damp stone and rot, a scent that had seeped into the fibers of his...

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