The Wistful Incense

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Maryam Kiyani stood in the straw barracks, the coroner's slate wiped clean in her hand, watching the salt smugglers' cove from the window. The village was a grid of canals and shared walls, a place where the heat at noon made the air shimmer like broken glass. She was thirty-four, a constable with a torn uniform and a debt of honor that weighed more than the slate. Her superiors called her...

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