The Distant Wound

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The Distant Wound

The ink in the well did not smell of iron, as it should have, but of burnt sugar and ozone. Elias Vane stood before the brass basin, his hands suspended in the air, trembling not with cold, but with the sheer weight of the expectation placed upon his shoulders. He was the Archivist of the State, a title that sounded like a monument to silence. In the high, vaulted chambers of the Ministry of...

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