The Wistful Asylum
The fire did not smell of pine or coal, but of burnt sugar and wet iron. It was a scent that clung to the back of the throat, sweet and metallic, like the taste of blood on a split lip. Margaret Holloway stood in the center of the Great Hall of the Sanatorium of the Eternal Winter, her hands pressed flat against her thighs to keep them from trembling. The floor beneath her feet was made of...
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