The Faded Quadrant

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The whisper started in the mortar, a low, grinding friction that sounded like a man trying to swallow a stone. I pressed my ear against the blackstone wall of the Old Quarter cell, my breath fogging in the damp cold, and waited for the dawn that would bring the executioner. I was thirty years old, and I had done nothing to deserve this, yet here I was, the condemned son of a dying mother,...

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