The Faded Ruin

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The Faded Ruin

The ink in my pen was running low, a brown sludge that smelled of iron and old rain, and I watched the nib scratch against the paper with a rhythm that matched the dripping from the ceiling tile above my desk. Three drops per minute. I counted them because counting kept the tremor in my hands from shaking the page, and because I had seventeen hours left before the Purity Audit began, and I...

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