The Faded Dust

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The Faded Dust

The ledger was missing. That was the first thing Mara noticed, not the smell of dry rot or the cold that bit through her cardigan, but the empty slot on the shelf where Volume Four should have been. She counted the remaining volumes. One, two, three. Five, six, seven. The gap was a physical absence, a hole in the sequence that felt like a missing tooth. She adjusted her gloves, the cotton stiff...

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