The Distant Metropolis
The train does not stop, and it does not slow, but the air inside the carriage grows thick with the smell of wet wool and old iron, a scent that clings to the back of the throat like a bad penny. Elias sat with his hands in his lap, watching the brass compass tremble in the hollow of his palm, its needle spinning with a frantic, sickly precision that had nothing to do with the north. "You are...
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