The Distant Legend
The ledger line read: Joséphine Zeringue, Archivist, Grade IV. Pension pending authentication of the Imperial Seal. Status: Stalled. Joséphine stood before the glass case in the sub-basement of the Ministry, the chill rising from the concrete floor like a damp breath. She was forty-two, a woman whose hands were mapped with the fine, dry cracks of someone who spent her life handling things that...
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