The Faded Quadrant

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The letter sat on my desk, the ink still wet, a dark smear against the cream paper, and I felt the weight of the silver brooch in my pocket as if it were a second heart, beating in time with my own. I was forty years old, the headmaster of Ashworth Hall, a position that demanded a stoicism I no longer possessed, and I was writing to my father, Arthur Thorne, to demand the return of the relic...

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