The Pale Echo
The file folder is cold against your palm, its cardboard edges worn soft by decades of handling, and you smooth the spine with a thumb that trembles slightly, not from fear, but from the arrhythmia that has become your constant companion. You are Elias Thorne, fifty-two, and you are three hours into a night that must last until dawn. The Ministry of Antiquities is silent, a vast, stone-throated...
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