The Distant Crown

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The Distant Crown

The sour smell of the vault was not rot, but preservation. Thomas Bradshaw, twelve years old and stiff with the smell of yeast on his skin, stood before the iron door of the High Priest’s treasury. He had watched the town for weeks, seen the way the sour-dough families were shunned, their ovens barred, their children sent to school with dirt on their faces that no amount of scrubbing would...

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