The Faded Quadrant

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The smell of wet wool and iron filings hung in the air of the parlor, a heavy, metallic tang that coated the back of my throat before I even opened my door. Elias, my father called from the kitchen, his voice low and scraped raw by the day’s cough, and I knew that tone, the one that meant the ledger was open and the ink was wet. I was twelve, though I felt older, older than the soot-stained...

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