The Faded Sutra

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The Faded Sutra

The count was always the same: twenty-four years of service, forty-one days of unpaid leave, and one gold band on the left hand. Elias Thorne woke with the number 197 stamped in his mind, the exact figure of the pension debt owed to Magistrate Vane. In the dream, the field was white. Not snow, but ash. Mara lay in it, her face obscured by the gray dust that drifted like static over the horizon....

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