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Tuesday. The annex, the last of the light.
She sat down.
The chair took her the way it had taken somebody else for years, the leather gone soft in two places that were the wrong places for her. Her right hand came off the fold. The cut page stayed under its clip, fourteen days of an honest hand, unread past its top line. She made herself look at it once more before she gave it up, because giving it up was the vote, and the vote had been counted.
Then she put both hands on the keys.
They were cold. The whole room was warm, trapped late summer under rafters, and the keys were cold the way the brass on the board was bright, from years of one thing only. She found the shift and held it. The machine wanted capitals. Everything it had ever sent her had been capitals, and she was not going to be the first lowercase voice in this correspondence.
The first strike sounded like a plate dropped on stone.
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