The Wistful Grid
The ink was red again. Elara Vane stared at the page, her breath held tight in her chest. The numbers for the textile district were smudged, the crimson bleeding through the cheap paper like a wound that refused to clot. She wiped her thumb across the line. The stain remained. It was not a mistake. It was a name. She knew the worker. He had died in the loom room on Tuesday. "Miss Vane." The...
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