The Wistful Incense
The smell hit you before the door did. It was not a scent, not exactly, but a pressure, a dense fog of cedar and burnt sugar that coated the back of your throat. You stood in the corridor of the City Bureau of Records, your badge heavy against your chest, and watched the air shimmer with a heat that the radiators did not produce. Elias Thorne, thirty-four, Junior Archivist. You had been hired...
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