The Distant Cartograph

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The steppe wind carried the scent of wet horsehair and drying mud, a sound that scraped against the eaves of the border town like a rope bridge creaking under a heavy load. Ryke Ashlar sat in the cramped front of his shop, the one that never quite opened to the street, his fingers stained black with ink that smelled of iron and old blood. He was thirty years old, a debtor to the rainmaker, and...

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