The Faded Masquerade
The dream was not of sleep, but of a court where the air tasted of copper and burnt sugar. I stood before the dais, my robes heavy with the damp of a cellar that did not exist, and there she was, Elara, her face pale as parchment, holding a vial of amber liquid that pulsed with a rhythmic, viscous light. It was not a ghost’s glow, but the dense, oily luminescence of something alive and hungry....
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