The Wistful Incense

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The first crack appeared in the plaster of the east wing on a Tuesday, and by Wednesday, Major Elias Thorne had already torn the wallpaper down to the lath, his hands shaking not from cold, but from the sudden, violent intrusion of truth into a life built on immaculate order. He was thirty years old, a man whose spine had been straightened by twenty years of service until it had become less a...

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