The Distant Cartograph

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The document lay on the wet wood of the table, its edges curling inward like dead leaves. It was a requisition form, Form 14-B, printed in the stark, bureaucratic typeface of the Department of Frontier Affairs. Elias Thorne stared at the line for "Cause of Absence." The ink was black, sharp, and final. He needed a body to file this. Without a body, there was no pension. Without a pension, there...

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