The Faded Frontier
The banquet hall of the Grand Meridian Exchange did not smell of roasting pheasant or spiced wine, as the brochures had promised, but of ozone and heated copper, a metallic tang that clung to the back of the throat like a forgotten promise, a scent that was the very residue of the machine, the great brass-and-glass leviathan that dominated the center of the room, humming with a low, subsonic...
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