The Wistful Grid

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The Wistful Grid

The fever in my wife’s blood had risen to a pitch that made the air in our shophouse at fifty-eight of Stonecutter Alley smell of burnt sugar and wet rot, and I, Kalsom bin Rahman, a senior inquisitor for the Duke’s court, found myself staring at the bedside table where a single, forbidden glyph had been carved into the wood, a mark that meant heresy and meant death. I had spent twenty years...

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