The Distant Metropolis

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The feast in the chapel of St. Jude’s was not a celebration of joy, but a ritual of sustenance. The air was thick with the smell of boiled turnips, damp wool, and the metallic tang of old blood that had never quite scrubbed out of the stone floor. It was a medieval cold, the kind that settled into the marrow and stayed there, a permanent tenant in the bones. Elias Thorne sat at the long oak...

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