The Distant Cartograph

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You hold the map. It is not paper. It is skin. The skin of the lake. It stretches across the valley floor, pale and cracked. You walk on it. Your boots crunch. The sound is wet. Like meat. You are far from home. Home is a word that hurts. You left it. You ran. The air here tastes of iron and snow. You are an outsider. You always are. The people here look at you. Their eyes are flat. Stone. They...

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