The Faded Guest
The silver signet ring sat in Elias Thorne’s palm, cold as a fish pulled from the deep. It was a heavy thing, tarnished to the color of old bruises, the crest of the Thorne family—a stag with a broken antler—worn smooth by generations of anxious thumbs. Elias rubbed his thumb over the metal, a gesture so habitual it had outlived the man who had taught it. He was thirty, an archivist in the town...
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