The Wistful Incense

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The ledger sat open on the oak table, its pages heavy with the weight of three years’ silence, and Elian counted the hours since his mother’s death as one counts the ticks of a broken clock, each one a small, sharp pain in the wrist. He was twelve, old enough to know that the air in the Guildhall smelled of damp wool and iron filings, and young enough to believe that a single silver coin could...

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