The Distant Promise

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The deed lay on the mahogany desk, its edges frayed and soft as old skin, and Elias Thorne refused to sign it. He held the pen aloft, the nib trembling not from fear, but from the sheer, crushing weight of the ink that threatened to blot the page. It was four in the morning, the hour when the shadows in the corners of the library stretched long and thin, pooling against the baseboards like...

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