The Wistful Asylum

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The iron taste of blood was thick in my mouth, a metallic tang that coated the tongue and settled in the back of the throat. I wiped the red from my lips with a sleeve that was already stiff with old, dried stains. The air in the Hall of Echoes did not smell of rot, as one might expect in a place where time had stopped, but of ozone and wet stone. It was a sterile, cold scent. The kind of smell...

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