The Distant Crown

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The Distant Crown

In the city, ink is blood, and we are only what remains after the drying. The cold had frozen the well stone solid, a white block that refused to yield to the bucket rope, so I stood in the kitchen of the midwife’s house, my hands numb, watching the fog press against the windowpanes. It was a famine year, and the grain stores were empty, but the ink stores were full, hoarded by the Crown in the...

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