The Wistful Cipher

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The silence in the basement of the Royal Infirmary was not an absence of sound but a heavy, viscous substance that coated the eardrums and settled deep within the marrow of the bone, a cold and ancient weight that I had carried since my first posting to the regiment and which I had since mistaken for the natural frequency of my own failing pulse. I sat in the corner of the stone room, my hands...

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