Ashes to Dust
Episode 5: The Feast
The ballroom glowed like a cathedral of corruption, chandeliers dripping crystal fire onto silks and brocades. Masks in gold and ivory turned the nobility into beasts — wolves with jeweled teeth, stags with silver horns, doves whose feathers reeked of perfume and politics. Laughter chimed like broken glass as wine poured in fountains and the air thicken…