The Distant Legend

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Chapter One "Notice of Seizure: Item 4, one (1) white crane feather, deemed contraband under the Quarantine Act of 1858." The ink was still wet on the parchment, smelling of iron and salt, when Ahmad Darwish read it in the customs shed. He was twelve, small for his age, and the dust of the Nile-side estate clung to his hair like dried silt. Behind the desk, the keyboard of the closing office...

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