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The Mars Protocol
Category: Sci-Fi
The market was bustling with merchants, their voices a chorus of bargains and boasts.
She had not expected to see him again, not after all these years.
He was the kind of man who kept his word, even when it cost him.
She smiled, but it did not reach her eyes.
The train pulled out of the station with a long, mournful whistle.
A knock at the door changed everything.
The letter was still on the table, unopened, as it had been for three days.
The garden had been her mother’s pride, and now it was hers.
The end.