The Distant Wound

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The Distant Wound

The ledger weighed four pounds, two ounces. Elias Thorne knew the exact weight because he had lifted it from the foundation trench three times that morning, checking the scale each time to ensure the metal case had not shifted its center of gravity. He was forty-two years old, a senior archivist in the Ministry of Continuity, and he had nineteen years of service left before his pension would...

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