The Distant Metropolis
The ledger weighed exactly three pounds, four ounces, and twelve grains, a weight I had calibrated in my head as I carried it up the three flights of stairs to the Magistrate’s office, the numbers in my mind aligning with the chill that had settled into the floorboards of Oakhaven since the first frost. I was forty-two years old, a border warden, and I wanted nothing more than to secure the...
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