The Faded Quadrant
The rain had not stopped for three days, and the smell of it was thick in the basement of St. Jude’s, a wet, rotting scent that clung to the back of your throat like a bad penny. You, Elias Thorne, stood by the boiler, your hands wrapped around a tin cup of cold tea, watching the steam curl off the black water. You were forty-five, a man who had spent twenty years in service, first to the army,...
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