The Wistful Incense

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The air in the archive tasted of wet ash and old paper. Baptiste Perrin stood before the great brass urn, his hands trembling not from cold but from the weight of his own history. He was thirty-two, a junior archivist at the Ministry of Memory, and the fiscal audit was three days away. His tenure depended on the purity of his smoke. The rule was simple, if cruel: the incense burned bright only...

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