The Distant Machine
The seal is warm. It hums against your palm, a low, resonant thrum that vibrates up through the bones of your wrist. You are leaving. The door is open. The air outside is thick with the scent of wet stone and old smoke. You do not look back. You know if you look back, the stone will follow. It is the hour before the dawn watch. The tower is silent. The candles have burned down to nubs of wax....
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