The Wistful Skyline
The fountain pen felt heavy in Elias Thorne’s hand, its cap smooth and cold against his thumb as he held it suspended over the zoning variance. The ink was black, viscous, and smelled faintly of iron. Across the mahogany desk, Marcus Vane did not look at the document; he looked at the wall clock, his smile a fixed, polite thing that never reached his eyes. Elias was a municipal clerk, forty-two...
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