The Faded Paradox
The champagne was cold, and the chandelier above Lord Vane’s head hummed with a low, electric threat. Elias Thorne stood near the edge of the ballroom, his fingers white-knuckled around the glass, watching the crowd swirl like oil on water. He was thirty-two, a junior clerk with ink-stained cuticles and a mortgage that ate his bones. In his left pocket, the vial of spirit ink clicked against...
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