The Faded Apartment

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The banquet hall of the Ashworth estate did not smell of roasting pheasant or spiced wine, but of wet wool, rusted iron, and the peculiar, metallic sweetness of blood that had dried into the very grain of the oak floorboards, a scent that clung to the back of the throat like a persistent, invisible cough. I sat at the head of the long table, my uniform pressed to a severity that bordered on...

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