The Faded Masquerade

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I The ink was in my veins before I woke. It moved like a black worm under the skin of my forearm, a cold thing that did not bleed but spread. I sat up in the berth, the air heavy with ozone and wet iron, the specific rot of the habitat’s lower decks. My hands were shaking. They always shook now, the joints swollen, the skin paper-thin over the bone. I had five days. The council needed the final...

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