HIS POISONOUS POSSESSION
He looked back at her, and for the first time, she saw a flicker of the man he might have been if he had never been caged.
"Then we burn the library, Ivy. And we start writing our own story in the ash."
They reached the Jewish Quarter as the city was waking up, a maze of narrow streets where the fog clung to the cobblestones like a living thing. They found the entrance to the archive beneath an old clockmaker’s shop—a hidden stone stair that descended into the damp, lightless belly of the city.
The air below was thick with the scent of rotting paper and ancient wax. Dante held a torch aloft, the flickering flame casting long, distorted shadows against the stacks of leather-bound ledgers.
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