The Wistful Petal

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The Wistful Petal

The clock in the corridor of the Ministry of Public Works did not tick. It hummed, a low, electric thrum that resonated in the teeth of everyone who worked beneath its brass face. Elias Thorne sat at his desk, a rectangle of mahogany worn smooth by decades of nervous palms, and watched the dust motes dance in the single shaft of afternoon light that pierced the heavy velvet drapes. He was a man...

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