The Wistful Petal

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The Wistful Petal

The air in the sub-basement of the Halcyon Municipal Archive tasted of old pennies and wet chalk, a metallic tang that Mara Vance had learned to associate with the specific, suffocating pressure of her own inadequacy. She adjusted her reading glasses, the lenses magnifying the tremor in her fingers as she hovered her stylus over the digital interface, the cursor blinking like a slow, mocking...

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