The Pale Garden

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The Pale Garden

You keep the key in your left pocket. It is a heavy thing, cold iron, worn smooth by decades of thumbs. You carry it through the rain, through the mud, through the long, grey corridor of the Department. The building is old. It smells of wet wool and stale tea and something metallic, like blood or copper wire. You do not look at the other officers. You do not speak. You are a man who walks. You...

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