The Faded Quadrant

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You are holding the pen. The ink is black, viscous, and smells of iron. You are forty years old, a clockmaker in a shop that has been in your family for three generations, and you are signing the deed of sale. The banquet is in full swing. It is a suffocatingly bright affair, the kind of event that smells of burnt sugar and stale perfume, held in your own workshop to celebrate the acquisition...

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