The Wistful Mountain
I In the Ministry of Records, the ink did not dry; it waited. Ursula Wolf sat at her desk, the fluorescent lights humming a low, electric drone that vibrated in her teeth. She was thirty-two, a junior archivist with the posture of a woman holding her breath, and the file before her was the "Wistful Mountain" cipher. The promotion depended on it. The promotion depended on everything, really, on...
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