The Distant Wound
The ink on the signature line was still wet, a dark vein pulsing against the grey paper, when Elias Thorne felt the weight of the pen in his hand. He was forty years old, a man whose joints ached in the damp air of the Ministry of Silence, and he needed this pension. The room smelled of ozone and old, dry rot, the scent of the sealed files that lined the walls. Outside, the city of New Haven...
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