The Distant Machine
The vial was cold against my palm, a small cylinder of glass that held the last of the merchant’s amber liquid. I held it up to the light in the workshop, watching the dust motes dance in the shaft of sun that cut through the high window. It looked like honey, thick and golden, but it smelled of iron and old blood. I was Elias, a scribe of thirty-four years, and I had spent the last three weeks...
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