The Distant Nightmare

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Chapter One Item 44: One ream of parchment, damp. Ink, black, ground with cinnabar. The debt of Murata Taro’s father, unliquidated. The ink did not dry. It spread across the parchment in a slow, arterial crawl, turning the neat columns of the royal ledger into a map of open wounds. Taro Murata stared at the page, his fingers numb from the cold that seeped up through the flagstones of the...

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