The Faded Masquerade

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In Elias Thorne’s hands, the mask was cold. It was a thing of beechwood, carved thin as parchment, painted with a face that had lost its color to decades of sweat and silence. He held it up to the window where the grey November light fell in sharp, angular beams across the tanning pit. The wood smelled of lye and old blood. Elias was forty years old, his hands stained a permanent yellow by the...

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