The Distant Cartograph

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The parchment was not merely stained; it was dissolving, the edges curling into a pale, brittle curl that threatened to tear the very skin of the vellum beneath it. Elias, twelve years old and trembling with a fever that had settled into his marrow like cold iron, stared at the map of the coast where the ink had run into a brown smear, erasing the precise, authoritative lines that the King’s...

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