The Faded Quadrant

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The ink did not smell of iron, though it ran like blood. It smelled of wet ash and the stale, metallic tang of the boiler room where my father had coughed his last breath into the soot three winters ago. I stood before the ledger, the Faded Quadrant, its pages swollen with a moisture that should not have existed in the dry, dust-choked air of the Blackwood Archive. I was twelve years old, a...

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