The Wistful Petal

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The Wistful Petal

The ink on the nib was still wet, a black smear against the parchment, when I felt the weight of the brass compass in my palm. It was a cold, dead weight, the kind that settles into the meat of the hand and stays there, marking the hours like a tick in the blood. I was thirty years old, and I had served the Crown for twelve, but it was only in the garrison at Blackwood that I understood the...

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