The Distant Promise

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The damp in the cellar did not smell of rot, but of old iron and the particular, mineral tang of wet limestone. Elias Thorne, his hands roughened by twenty years of grinding silica and cutting lead, packed his shears into the leather roll with a mechanical precision that belied the tremor in his wrists. He was thirty-two, a master glazier whose trade had once been celebrated in the market...

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