The Faded Masquerade

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The page in your hand is soft as wet cloth, the ink of the ledger bleeding into a brown, viscous puddle that smells of rust and old rain. You are Elias Thorne, forty-two, and you are standing in the subterranean municipal vault beneath the Loop, where the air is thick with the scent of damp concrete and the ozone bite of the fluorescent lights that buzz like trapped wasps. You want to finish...

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