The Distant Promise

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The air in the Atrium of the High Court did not smell of stone or old parchment, as the histories had promised, but of ozone and wet iron, a metallic tang that coated the back of Thomas’s throat and tasted like the blood of a recently killed deer. He stood at the precipice of the Obsidian Steps, his small hands trembling not from the cold, which was a dry, biting thing that seeped through his...

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