The Distant Cartograph
The ink was drying on the contour lines of the northern ridge when my hand began to shake. It was a fine tremor, barely perceptible, but enough to blur the tip of the nib against the heavy vellum. I held the porcelain compass in my other hand. It was a small thing, no larger than a walnut, glazed in a pale, sickly blue. Clara had given it to me on our wedding day, a token of her belief that I...
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