The Wistful Incense

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The snow had closed the road to the coast by three o’clock, leaving Isla Ure alone with the hum of the greenhouse module and the damp cold seeping through the glass. She was twelve years old, a scribe in the Imperial Court of the Highlands, and her hands were already stained with the black tar that refused to wash away. Her father, a man who had spent thirty years balancing the books for the...

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