The Distant Journey

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The invoice lay on the damp flagstones, the ink blurred where the cellar air had seeped into the paper. Elias read the figures twice, his breath misting in the cold, before he tore the sheet in half. He was forty years old, and the wool merchant’s shop in the village of Alder Creek had been his life for twenty. He needed the Duke’s order. He needed the gold to pay off his brother’s debts, the...

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