The Distant Crown

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The Distant Crown

The clock on the wall of the Archives Department had ticked for twelve hours since the rain began, a steady, mechanical pulse that Mara Holloway counted against the beat of her own failing heart. She had cataloged four hundred and twelve documents, weighed the ink in her pen three times, and stared at the tremor in her left hand for the better part of an hour. The hand shook. It was a fine,...

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