The Distant Clue

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The Distant Clue

The crack in the Jade Seal wept. It was a thin, dark line, like a vein of iron in the stone, and from it seeped a substance that was not quite liquid, not quite smoke, but something that tasted of copper and old rain on the tongue. I am Elian, twelve years of age, a junior scribe in the Obsidian Court, and I have spent the last three nights trying to stop the bleeding. The Whisper is loud...

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