The Distant Cartograph
The wind did not howl at the door; it scraped against the timber like a dull knife against bone, a sound that had become the metronome of my last three years. I sat on the edge of the cot in the small, cold room above the surveying office, packing the brass instruments into the oilcloth wrap with hands that trembled not from the cold, but from the shallow, rattling intake of air that marked...
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