The Faded Quadrant

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Thomas. The name hung in the air, heavy as the coal dust that settled on every surface in the counting room. It was spoken not by a person, but by the silence itself, a void shaped like my own exhaustion. I sat at the long oak table, the wood warped by years of damp and neglect, and stared at the ledger before me. It was November, 1912, and the cold in Leeds did not merely chill the skin; it...

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