The Wistful Ashes
The paste was black. Silas Vane stood in the cellar, the damp cold seeping through the thin fabric of his enforcement uniform, holding the crushed remains of the state-issued ration in his palm. It was not food. It was ash. Thick, granular, and smelling of burnt iron and old regret. He had been a compliance officer for twelve years, a man who knew the weight of a signature and the silence of a...
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