The Faded Ruin

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The Faded Ruin

The trowel was cold in my palm, slick with lime and the damp sweat of my own exertion. I pressed it against the jagged edge of a brick, smoothing the mortar with a motion so practiced it felt less like work and more like breathing. Outside, the wind off the river cut through the single pane of glass, carrying the smell of coal smoke and wet iron, but inside the library of Blackwood Manor, the...

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