The Distant Machine

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The ink in the pot had dried to a crust of black scabs, and Sir Thomas Bradshaw spent the better part of the morning scraping it off with a knife before he could write. His fingers were stiff, the joints swollen from the damp that crept into the outpost walls like a slow, silent flood. He looked at the empty page, then at the machine in the corner of the room, which hummed with a low, steady...

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