The Faded Masquerade

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The harbor at thirty-one of Widow's Landing smelled of brine, rotting kelp, and the sharp, metallic tang of wet iron. Walter Stroud stood on the dock, his boots sinking into the mud, watching the fog roll in from the sea like a grey tide. He was the cook on the Marianne, a cargo ship that ran the northern routes, and he held his father’s silver mask in his left hand. The object was cold, colder...

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