The Faded Bouquet

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The Faded Bouquet

The ledger was cold in my hands, heavier than paper should be. It smelled of wet stone and old copper, the scent that clings to the walls of Blackwood Asylum where the damp eats through the plaster. I was Elias, thirty-two, a junior archivist with ink-stained fingers and a debt to pay. My brother, Thomas, had vanished three months prior, leaving behind a trail of unpaid bills and a reputation...

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