The Wistful Asylum

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The seal on the door was not ink, but blood. It had dried to a dark, brittle crust that flaked under my touch, smelling of iron and old rain. I stood in the corridor of the manor, the air thick with the scent of damp wool and the faint, cloying sweetness of decay. I am a man of the law, or so I told myself for thirty years. I wore the uniform, I carried the badge, I spoke with the authority of...

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