The Distant Metropolis

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The ledger was heavy, its leather spine cracked like old knuckles, and Elias counted the hours it would take to balance the columns with the same patience he applied to counting his own heartbeats in the dark. In the stone-walled orphanage of St. Jude’s, where the air tasted of damp limestone and boiled turnips, twelve-year-old Elias Ashworth believed that if he could master the arithmetic of...

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