The Distant Cartograph

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The mortar was wet and cold against the trowel, a slick, gray paste that smelled of iron and old rain. I worked the joint between two limestone blocks on the western face of the Spire, my fingers numb not from the wind, which was merely a whisper in the high altitude, but from the vibration that hummed through the stone itself. It was a low, thrumming frequency, like the idle engine of a beast...

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