The Distant Crown

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The Distant Crown

The ledger weighed four pounds, a dense, rectangular block of leather and paper that Elias Thorne lifted from the desk with the careful, practiced motion of a man handling a live grenade. He had been at St. Jude’s Asylum for twenty-two years, a span of time long enough to wear the soul thin as paper, and in that duration he had cataloged every receipt, every inventory of linens, and every grim...

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