The Wistful Cipher

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The night train to the capital smelled of wet wool and rust, a suffocating scent that clung to Elias’s skin like a second coat. He was twelve, small for his age, with eyes that had learned to watch more than speak, and in his left hand he gripped his father’s brass compass so tightly his knuckles turned the color of old bone. The needle inside the glass face trembled, not with the north, but...

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