The Distant Joke

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The Distant Joke

Chapter One "You are a burden, Costa. A heavy, rusted weight on the ship’s keel." Colonel Aurelio Vianello did not look up from the ledger he was balancing. The room smelled of damp wool and the sharp, metallic tang of the sea that had never quite left the stones. Salvatore Costa stood in the center of the barracks, his hands clasped behind his back, feeling the familiar ache in his knuckles, a...

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