The Distant Metropolis

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The pencil snapped against the edge of the ledger, a small, sharp crack that seemed too loud in the stifling heat of the sub-basement, and Elias Vane stared at the jagged white tip as if it had bitten him. He was twelve years old, a clerk’s son from the textile district, and he had spent the last three hours trying to transcribe the names that were not in the index cards but in the air, a low,...

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