The Distant Metropolis
You wake not with a start but with a slow, heavy drift, as if surfacing from deep water where the pressure has long since crushed the sound out of the world, and the first thing that presses against your consciousness is not the light in the room but the taste, thick and metallic, of iron and old blood on the back of your tongue, a flavor so ancient and so intimately yours that it feels less...
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