The Pale Bonsai
The air in the actuarial division tasted of ozone and stale toner. Elias Thorne sat at his desk, the pale silk scarf Mara had left behind tucked tightly against his neck, a small, cool anchor in the sterile void of the office. He was forty-two, a mid-level actuary whose primary function was to calculate the statistical probability of human failure, yet his own existence had begun to feel like a...
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