The Faded Guest
The page was soft, the kind of cotton rag that had been handled so many times the fibers felt like wet dust under my thumb. It was tucked into the false bottom of a mahogany desk in the East Wing, a compartment I had pried open with a letter opener because the High Minister had looked at me over his spectacles and said, "Find it, Elias, or you are nothing." I am thirty-two. I have worked in the...
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