The Distant Cartograph

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The ink in the pot was black and thick as dried blood, and you watched it settle in the glass vessel on the heavy oak desk, a dark pool that seemed to absorb the candlelight rather than reflect it. You were seven years old, or perhaps eight, the exact number had blurred into a single, elongated season of waiting, and your hands were stained up to the knuckles with the soot and gall that...

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