The Faded Masquerade

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The quill in your hand is cold, the nib wet with ink that smells of iron and old blood. You are Elias Thorne, forty-two, a wandering scribe whose fingers are stained permanently black at the tips, sitting in the suffocating heat of the Oakhaven archive. You want to transcribe the final, forbidden verse of the Masquerade Codex to cure your sister’s wasting lungs, a desire that has driven you...

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