The Distant Metropolis

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The transport permits were not denied; they were merely delayed, a bureaucratic hesitation that Elias Thorne recognized immediately as a form of strangulation, the kind of slow, suffocating pressure that the central ministry in the distant capital applied to the provinces when they wished to remind them of their insignificance. Elias, a garrison commander of forty-two years with a face that had...

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