The Distant Metropolis
Act I Albertina Oliveira, thirty-four years old and keeper of the boarding house at seventeen of NineElm Crossing, had not slept properly in a decade because the wages owed to her by the Abbey of St. Jude were pledged twice, a debt that smelled of wet wool and old ink in the damp air of the scriptorium where she sat, her hands trembling over the final folio of the Liber Vitae. The parchment was...
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