The Distant Clue

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The Distant Clue

The banquet hall in the old city was a cavern of gold and shadow, echoing with the clatter of silver on porcelain. I stood at the periphery, a shadow among the light. The air was thick, heavy with the scent of roasted duck and expensive perfume, a scent that seemed to coat the tongue in something cloying and sweet. I was fifty years old. The number hung in my mind like a stone in a pocket, cold...

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