The Distant Metropolis

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The parchment lay flat on the oak table, its edges curling slightly in the damp air of the scribe’s office, and Elias Thorne stared at the ink still wet on the signature line, watching the black letters bleed into the fiber as if the paper itself were weeping. He was forty-two years old, and his hands, which had copied the town ledgers for two decades without a tremor, now shook with a cold...

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