The Wistful Crossroads

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The inkwell was full of blood. Elias did not scream. He sat up on the straw mattress in the corner of the cellar, the damp cold seeping into his bones, and looked at the black, viscous liquid pooling in the glass. It was not his blood. It was too dark, too thick, smelling of iron and old earth. He was thirty years old, a cartographer for the Crown, and he was broke. His sister, Clara, had died...

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