The Wistful Incense

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The ink on the contract was still wet, spreading into the grain of the parchment like a bruise that would not heal. Vessa Maiden stood in the hallway of coats and bicycles, the air heavy with damp wool and old rust, listening to the dry thunder of no rain that shook the windows of the palace. He was thirty-two years old, and his pension was due by the autumn solstice, a deadline that hung over...

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