The Distant Blade

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The Distant Blade

The rain did not fall so much as it hovered, a suspended grey mist that clung to the high-gloss tiles of the Central Precinct’s intake hall, a place where the air was recycled until it tasted of ozone and old fear. I stood at the end of the long, polished counter, my uniform crisp, the fabric stiff with the weight of protocols I had memorized so thoroughly they had become part of my skeleton. I...

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