The Wistful Petal

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The Wistful Petal

The brass compass had been in Elias Thorne’s breast pocket for twenty-two years, and in that time it had lost exactly three hours of function, the internal hairspring weakening by a fraction of a degree with each passing winter. He counted the days remaining on his calendar card, the paper soft and yellowed from the humidity of the Imperial Ministry’s basement archives, where the air tasted of...

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