The Wistful Cipher

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The Imperial Postmaster’s seal, cracked open on the desk of the border station, bled a black ink that smelled of iron and dried roses. I am Ahmad Zandi, and the paper in my hand does not say treason; it says transfer, a word the bureau uses for men who are to be erased before the dawn. The nightingale in my palm is cold, its throat torn open by the beak of a hawk I could not scare away, and the...

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