The Distant Cartograph

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The ink did not dry; it wept. Elias Thorne watched the dark blue lines of the coastline swell and bleed into the parchment, the pigment spreading like a bruise under skin, and he understood with a cold, visceral certainty that he was a fraud. He was forty-two, a man who had spent three years tracing the jagged, unmapped teeth of the Pacific Northwest coast, driven by a primal, instinctual need...

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