The Distant Garden

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The air in the basement archive always tasted of dry dust and old paper, but today it carried a faint, metallic tang that made the back of my throat tighten as I stood before the sealed door of Room 404. I had come here to retrieve the ledger that Director Halloway claimed I had stolen, a charge that had stripped me of my pension and left my name in the institution’s black ledger of disgraced...

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