The Faded Quadrant

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The magistrate’s pen hovered over the parchment, a black sliver suspended in the dust-moted air of the mill office. Elias Thorne watched the tip tremble, not with age, but with the deliberate, cold hesitation of a man deciding how much pain to inflict. The room smelled of wet wool and the sharp, metallic tang of old ink, a scent that had seeped into the grain of the oak desk where Elias now...

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