The Distant Crown
The rain hits the window of the safehouse. It is a steady, gray drumbeat. You sit in the armchair, the leather worn thin by years of sitting, by waiting, by the weight of a badge you no longer carry but which still burns a phantom hole in your left breast pocket. Your hand rests on your knee. You flex your fingers. They are stiff. The cold in your joints is a constant companion, a low-grade...
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