The Distant Blade
The ink was still wet on the death warrant when the blood began to bead, bright and wet, against the knuckles of my left hand. I stared at the crimson drops falling onto the blue linen of my desk, each one a small, dark star against the pale fabric. I was Elias Thorne, Senior Inspector of the Imperial Court’s Medical Bureau, and I had twenty years of service left to serve before the winter...
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