The Distant Garden

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The chandelier in the Grand Hall of the Ministry of Internal Affairs did not so much hang as it hovered, a suspended galaxy of cut crystal and aged brass that cast a fractured, prismatic light over the assembled elite of the capital. It was a spectacle of such absurd, gilded excess that it seemed to float in a vacuum, detached from the grim reality of the streets outside, where the winter wind...

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