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  “Beautiful,” Quinn said. The spread of beige carpet lay wide and pristine, a geometrically perfect blank space awaiting an identity. Outside the tall windows, their panes distorted by the years of three centuries, the city hummed and bustled, but the old building’s thick walls reduced the sounds to subtle punctuation.

  “It makes a hell of an improvement,” the carpet layer said.

  Quinn agreed.

  Pearl gave Quinn’s arm a squeeze. “It looks like home.”

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