The Distant Cartograph

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Elias, come here. The voice cut through the low hum of the factory floor, sharp as a snapped thread. It was not his father, who was dead, but the foreman, a man whose hands were stained permanently black by the dye vats. Elias stepped away from the drafting table where his father’s unfinished atlas lay open, the pages curling at the edges like dried leaves. He was twelve, small for his age,...

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