The Faded Guest

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The Faded Guest

The dream was always the same: a great oak, stripped of bark, standing in a field of white ash. Elias Thorne woke with the taste of rot in his mouth and a tremor in his fingers that would not settle. He was forty-five, an archivist of the second grade, and his hands were supposed to be steady enough to handle vellum without tearing. He sat up in the narrow cot of his staff quarters, the walls...

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