The Wistful Crossroads

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The cobblestones of the lower ward wept a thick, viscous black oil that smelled of sulfur and old iron, a smell that had settled into my lungs three days after my sister, Elara, died of the red cough. I am a city guard, a man of thirty years whose life has been measured in the shift of bells and the rotation of the watch, but now I am merely a stain on the uniform of the law, a suspect in the...

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