The Wistful Witness

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The magistrate’s seal pressed into the wax with a sound like a bone snapping, a final, dry crack that echoed in the small, damp room where I sat counting the threads of my last good wool. I had counted them three times, forty-two white, forty-two black, the pattern of our debt made visible in the warp. My left hand, the one in question, rested on the table, glowing with a faint, sickly amber...

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