The Faded Masquerade

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The ink in Elias Thorne’s fountain pen had dried into a crust of black scab, a testament to the hours he had spent hunched over the ledgers of the Royal Archives, his fingers trembling not from the cold but from the electric hum that seemed to rise from the parchment itself. It was the winter of 1893, and the palace air was thick with the scent of damp stone and old paper, a smell that Elias...

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