The Pale Path
The paper on your desk is thick, heavy with the weight of ink and iron, and you hold it by the corner so as not to smudge the final signature line. It is a load-bearing calculation for the Meridian Steel Works’ new suspension bridge, a document that should be simple arithmetic, yet your eyes slide over the tensile strength figures as if they were written in a foreign tongue. You are Elias Vane,...
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