The Golden Mirror
The letter lay on the desk, the wax seal broken, the ink still damp where the clerk’s hand had trembled, and I read the words three times before the cold settled into my bones. "Effective immediately, Detective Elias Thorne is relieved of duty pending review of conduct regarding the incident in the East Wing." It was a bureaucratic evisceration, a sterile sentence that stripped me of my badge,...
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