The Distant Joke

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The Distant Joke

The rain did not fall so much as it suspended itself in the air, a fine, gray mist that clung to the skin and settled into the pores of the old stone buildings of Oakhaven. It was a city without distinct seasons, only variations in the density of the damp. In the basement of the Municipal Archives, a room that smelled of decaying paper and cold iron, Elias Thorne sat alone. He was a man of...

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