The Wistful Crossroads

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The smell of burnt sugar and damp wool hung heavy in the air of the Department of Internal Revenue, a scent that seemed to seep through the limestone walls of the old municipal building where silence was not merely an absence of sound but a physical weight. Elias Thorne sat at a desk made of dark, scarred oak, his fingers resting upon a stack of ledgers that smelled of iron filings and stale...

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