The Distant Cartograph

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The ink was still wet, a glossy black smear that smelled of iron and old dust, and it was not mine. I stood in the sub-basement of the City Hall, the air thick with the scent of mildew and decaying paper, holding the 1998 municipal ledger in my hands. My name, Elias Thorne, was written in the margin in my own handwriting, precise and cramped, detailing a meeting with Director Halloway that had...

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