The Faded Masquerade

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The name was spoken not by a man, but by the wind, a low moan that raked the rotting timber of the Old Mill. Elias Thorne stood in the center of the floor, his boots sunk into inches of black sludge that smelled of wet iron and old blood. He was thirty-four years old, a border warden with a badge that felt heavy and wrong against his chest, and he was waiting for the light to change. It was the...

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