The Faded Ruin

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The Faded Ruin

The air in the apothecary tasted of iron and old rain. Elias stood before the counter, his hands trembling so violently that the wooden surface rattled beneath his palms. He was forty years old, a scribe of the Third Order, and he looked every day of it. His face was gaunt, mapped with the lines of a man who had not slept in a week. Across the counter, Magistrate Vane sat in a high-backed...

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