The Wistful Witness

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The draft in the archive did not smell of dust or old paper; it smelled of ozone and wet stone, a cold exhalation that seemed to rise from the floorboards themselves. Elias Thorne, forty years old and rigid as the oak desk he sat behind, watched the ledger slide three inches to the left. He had just told Lord Vane that the accounts were balanced, a lie so smooth it felt like swallowing glass....

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