The Faded Masquerade
The document lay on the velvet tablecloth, its edges crisp, the wax seal unbroken. Elias Thorne, forty-two, master forger of medieval seals, watched the Baron’s scribe, Julian Vane, sign the deed with a steady hand. The ink was fresh, black as a bruise, soaking into the parchment. Elias wanted to expose the fraud, to tear the mask from the scribe’s face before the Baron’s court could seal his...
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