The Distant Promise

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Act I "You are burning the archive, not saving it," Dr. Hamed said, his voice flat as the salt pan outside. I looked down at the folio in my hands. The paper was brittle, yellowed by seventy years of damp Cairo air, but the fern pressed within it was green. Vividly, impossibly green. I am Mona Fahmy, junior archivist, and this specimen is the only thing in the basement that breathes. The...

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