The Faded Guest

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The Faded Guest

The ink did not dry; it burned. Cornelis van Dijk sat in the cramped cell of the mill, the air heavy with wet ash and rotting wool, his hands blistered black from the commission he had accepted to pay his alms debt. The ledger was not a ledger. He knew this by the way the letters moved on the page, not as static marks but as small, writhing things that mapped the locations of souls trapped in...

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