The Distant Metropolis

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The parchment lay flat on the oak table, the wax seal cracked and weeping a dark, resinous tear that smelled of burnt pine and old blood. Thomas Bradshaw stared at the ink, which had begun to bleed into the fibers of the paper, the words *Debt* and *Forfeiture* smearing into a single, illegible mass. He was thirty years old, a knight of the outer marches, and his hands, usually steady enough to...

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