The Wistful Throne

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The ink was bleeding again. I wiped my thumb against the coarse wool of my sleeve, smearing the black residue across the pale paper of the ledger. It was a Tuesday. The air in the sorting room smelled of coal dust, damp wool, and the sharp, metallic tang of old varnish. I was thirty-two years old, and I had not slept in four days. My sister, Clara, was dying in a room in Prague that smelled of...

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