The Faded Masquerade
The paper was yellowed, brittle at the edges, smelling of damp cellar stone and old ink. You held it under the single, sputtering gaslight in the attic workshop, your fingers trembling not from the cold, but from the weight of the words. *To Elias, who thinks he has learned more than he has.* The signature was your master’s, dead these five years, but the hand was unmistakable. It was an...
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