The Distant Whispers

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The letter was not a pardon. It was a slip of grey paper, thin as onion skin, resting on the cold stone of the watchtower’s floor. I picked it up. The ink was black and final. It did not say *cleared*. It did not say *honored*. It said *dismissed for incompetence*, effective at first light. I looked at the door. The latch was iron, old and rusted, but it held. I was Elias Vane, forty-two, a...

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