The Distant Affair

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The candle flame in the archive sputtered, casting long, dancing shadows against the walls of stacked parchment, while Elias Thorne held the land deed up to the light, his hands trembling with a palsy that felt less like a medical condition and more like a moral failing. He was forty years old, a clerk of the Magistrate’s office for two decades, and the seal on the document was wrong; the wax...

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