The Distant Metropolis

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The parchment lay flat on the wet cobblestones, the ink of the seal still black and wet from the Bishop’s private press. Elias Ashworth did not pick it up. He stood in the center of the square, his hand clamped around the iron astrolabe, the metal cold and gritty against his palm, the rain slicking the hair back from his forehead. The crowd around him was a dense, breathing wall of wool and...

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