The Distant Whispers
Erik Forsberg remembered the smell of the wet plate before he remembered the light. It was a chemical bite, sharp and metallic, like the air in the distillery where he had spent his nights watching the copper vats sweat. He was thirty-two, a captain of guards in a house that smelled of dust and old wool, and he wanted the promotion. The ring on his thumb was his father’s, a heavy iron signet...
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