The Faded Masquerade
My hands were already stained with ink when the Duke’s secretary arrived, the smell of wet wool and coal smoke clinging to his coat as he stepped into the soot-choked hall. I was mid-stroke, tracing the final curve of a binding sigil on the parchment, my fingers numb from the cold that seeped through the floorboards of the barracks. The humidity had swollen the wooden doors of the semaphore...
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