The Distant Promise

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Decree of the Third Month: All debts incurred before the winter frost are now eternal. No redemption. No appeal. No exit. Giuseppa Palermo stood at the threshold of the Weeping Citadel, her fingers white-knuckled around the rusted iron key. The air tasted of copper and wet stone. She was thirty-two, a temple gardener who had not seen a coin in three months, and she held the key to a door that...

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