The Wistful Silence

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The brass key was cold against your palm, a weight that had grown heavier with every year you kept it in your waistcoat pocket. You were thirty-four, Elias Thorne, and your hands were stained with the particular grey dust of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a grime that settled into the creases of your skin like a second, permanent layer. You wanted the Senior Archivist post. You wanted it...

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