The Faded Bouquet

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The Faded Bouquet

It was not the light that stopped me, but the sound of the silence breaking. October 14, 1893. The valley floor is a grey smear of rot. I have been here three weeks, and the contract with the Geological Survey expires in nine days. My mother’s cough has worsened; the rent in Leeds is four pounds a month, and the pension requires a completed map of the Aethelgard Basin. I am thirty years old,...

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