The morning fog clung to Paris like a lover reluctant to leave, shrouding the city in a pearlescent veil that softened the edges of buildings and transformed gas lamps into ghostly orbs. From her rented apartment window on Rue Lepic, Josephine Bennett watched the mist swirl around the skeletal silhouette of the Sacré-Coeur Basilica, still under construction on Montmartre's summit. She had been awake since dawn, fingers tapping restlessly against her third cup of bitter coffee, waiting for the day to properly begin. Sleep had evaded her again, chased away by half-formed ideas and the persistent feeling that after three years in Paris, she was still merely skimming the surface of the city she had escaped to.
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