The Pale Meridian
Chapter One The northern cape of the New Kingdom stretched out under a sky the color of old pewter, a long, flat expanse of orchard land that had been bulldozed flat for the grain stores, where the wind moved through the bare branches with a sound like dry leaves scraping against stone. In this colony, loyalty was rationed like the salt in the winter stores, and every man’s worth was measured...
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