The Wistful Petal

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The Wistful Petal

The gale had stripped the harbor of its order, leaving the fishing boats tangled like broken ribs in the mud. Sorcha Fraser’s hands were raw, the skin split from scrubbing the ink from her palms, the smell of iron and damp wool thick in the archive’s stagnant air. She worked at the desk, the Red Ledger open before her, its pages warm as living flesh against her fingertips. The clock on the wall...

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