The Faded Masquerade

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The parchment lay flat on the oak table, its surface slick with the smell of tallow and old sweat. Elara held the quill with a grip that had gone white-knuckled, the feather trembling not from fear but from the strain of holding still. She was thirty-two years old, and her fingers were cramped into claws, the nails cracked and yellowed from weeks of scraping vellum. The candle flickered,...

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