The Faded Root

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The Faded Root

Act I Ying Xu, thirty-two, a typesetter whose fingers were permanently stained with lead, stood in the reeking heat of the tong lau’s basement archive, desperate to decode the "Faded Root" seal before the border closed on Sunday. The object was not a magical artifact, as the Chief Archivist, a man named Tan who smelled of stale tea and authority, claimed, but a complex cipher based on the...

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