The Faded Bouquet

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The Faded Bouquet

The east wing of the Ministry of Internal Affairs did not smell of dust, as one might expect of a repository for dead men’s secrets, but of wet wool and the faint, metallic tang of old blood, a scent that clung to Elias Thorne’s fingers every time he turned the brass key in the lock that only he possessed. He was thirty-two years old, a junior archivist with a permanent tenure that felt less...

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