The Golden Crossing
The banquet hall of the Ministry of Internal Stability did not smell of roasted pheasant or vintage wine, but of ozone and wet wool, a scent that clung to the back of the throat like a persistent cough. You sat at the long mahogany table, the wood polished to a mirror shine that reflected your own face back at you, a face that was older than your body, etched with the specific fatigue of a man...
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