The Pale Meridian
The banquet hall of the Whitmore Textile Mills smelled of damp wool and burnt sugar, a thick, cloying atmosphere that pressed against the skin like a heavy blanket. Thomas Bradshaw sat at the long mahogany table, his hands folded neatly in his lap, the knuckles pale beneath the starch of his cuffs. He was a man of precise angles and quiet habits, a junior actuary whose life was measured in...
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