The Distant Garden
You are standing in the center of the market square, and the cobblestones beneath your boots are slick with the rain that has been falling for three days, a cold, relentless sheet that smells of wet wool and old stone, and you are holding the great brass astrolabe in your hands, the metal cold and heavy, vibrating with a low, hum that you can feel in your teeth, and the crowd around you is not...
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