The Faded Root
The ledger showed forty-three days remaining until the audit, a number that felt heavier than the physical weight of the specimen box sitting on the desk. You counted the days in the way you counted everything, a rhythmic, mechanical tally that kept the panic at bay, each tick of the clock a small, sharp instrument of pressure against your skull. The dream had come again, as it did every night,...
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