The Faded Masquerade

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The hand hovered above the silk, trembling with a fine, rhythmic spasm that Elias Thorne tried to ignore by focusing on the date of the inventory. The fabric was a deep, bruised violet, heavy with the dust of decades, and it smelled of cedar and old perfume, a scent that triggered a sharp, painful contraction in his chest. He was forty-two, a senior archivist, and he had twenty years of service...

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