The Distant Joke

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The Distant Joke

Chapter One "Item 4: Liquid Mercury, one vial, for the calibration of the debt." Nazario Bermudez held the glass vial against the windowpane of the Salt Lords’ bureau, where the heatwave had erased the night and the fog sat heavy as wet wool on the altiplano, a physical weight that pressed against the glass and distorted the view of the reeds braiding into the river delta outside. He was...

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