The Distant Whispers
The banquet hall of the Department of Internal Security smelled of stale gin and expensive, synthetic floral arrangements that had begun to wilt in the dry, recycled air, a scent that clung to the back of the throat like a persistent cough, a physical manifestation of the discomfort that had settled deep into the marrow of everyone who had gathered in the windowless room on the forty-second...
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