The Distant Temple

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The permit is denied, Elias Thorne said, his voice flat and dry as the sawdust on the floor of his office, and he did not look up from the ledger where he was calculating the cost of a roof that would never exist. The silence that followed was not empty; it was the heavy, suffocating quiet of a held breath, the kind that precedes a storm breaking over the valley. He had wanted the oak, the...

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