The Faded Attic
The air in the hearing room was sterile. It smelled of floor wax and old fear. Elias stood at the podium. His hands were flat. He pressed them against the cold oak. The wood did not yield. It did not care. He was a man made of wire and silence. He had worn his uniform for twenty years. Now he wore a suit. It felt like a shroud. It was gray. The color of ash. The color of the fog that rolls in...
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