The Distant Threshold

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The silver chain caught the gaslight, a thin, bright thread against the Duke’s black velvet waistcoat. Elias Thorne stood in the antechamber of Blackwood Manor, his hands clasped behind his back, knuckles white. The air here smelled of beeswax and old paper, a dry, suffocating scent that clung to the throat. He was forty years old, an archivist by trade, a man who had spent two decades...

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