The Faded Quadrant
The wind in the upper gallery did not blow; it exhaled. Elias felt the breath of the stone against his cheek, a cold, dry sigh that smelled of wet chalk and old rot. He was thirty years old, though the gray in his beard suggested a man who had seen forty winters. He stood on the narrow scaffold, his hands wrapped around the central keystone, a block of limestone the size of his torso. The...
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