The Faded Bouquet

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The Faded Bouquet

The air in the archive room tasted of wet chalk and old fear, a thick, suffocating mixture that settled into the lungs and refused to leave. I stood with my back to the heavy oak door, my hands trembling so violently that the stack of case files I held shook like leaves in a gale, while behind me, the sound of footsteps echoed with the rhythmic, mechanical precision of a hammer striking an...

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