The Faded Paradox
The wine was too red, too thick, pooling in the crystal goblets like a wound that refused to clot. "Drink, Elias," Clara said, her voice flat, stripped of its usual melodic lilt. She sat at the head of the long mahogany table, the one inherited from his grandfather, who had built the manor in 1842 with timber felled from the northern slope. The wood was old, dark, and smelled of resin and damp...
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