The Faded Guest

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The Faded Guest

The brass key was cold, slick with a condensation that felt less like water and more like the sweat of a dying man, and I held it in my palm as if it were a live coal, turning it over and over until the metal bit into the soft skin of my thumb. It was the key to the Garden of Whispers, the sealed room at the bottom of the Vane Estate where the air tasted of rot and the shadows seemed to breathe...

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