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The Velvet Blade II: La Fortezza del Silenzio

Terzo Strumento

The Velvet Blade II, Chapter 9

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April 2, 1994 — Late Afternoon | Milan

The object could have been mistaken for a box of letters.

That was part of its elegance.

It lay on a felt cradle in the back room of a frame shop near Brera, wrapped in gray wool and tied with plain cotton tape, no larger than a family Bible, small enough that a fool might underestimate it and a connoisseur might love…

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