The Distant Legend

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The ironwork on the palace gates had begun to rust through before the winter snows could even think of settling, a slow and silent corrosion that mirrored the decay of the institution that had commissioned me to build them, and I stood in the shadow of the portcullis with my hands stained black by the residue of the night’s labor, watching the steam rise from the ventilation grates where the...

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