The Faded Masquerade

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The rain did not fall so much as it hung in the air, a cold, gray shroud that smelled of wet stone and old blood. Elias Thorne stood alone in the mud of the borderlands, his boots sinking into the slurry with every hesitant step. He was forty-two years old, a man whose face had been carved by wind and worry, his hands roughened by decades of grinding roots and tinctures. In his left hand, he...

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