The Wistful Ashes

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The Wistful Ashes

The Ministry of Memory did not have windows, for windows were breaches in the seal, and seals were the only thing that kept the past from leaking into the present in uncontrolled, corrosive floods. Elias Thorne sat in the basement archive, a place where the air was dry enough to crack the lips and silent enough to make the blood rushing in one’s ears sound like a distant ocean, and he waited...

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