The Distant Cartograph

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The iron key hangs from your neck, a cold weight against the sternum, swinging with the shallow rhythm of your breathing as you sit in the gray silence of the archive room. It is not a large key, but its surface is pitted and rough, worn smooth by centuries of thumbs, by the sweat of hands that were not yours, by the slow, grinding friction of time itself. You have held it for forty years. You...

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