The Pale Meridian

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The Pale Meridian

"Pressure valve, Sector Four: Manual Override Authorized. Time: 03:14. Signature: H. Hofmann." The ink on the slip was still wet when Heinrich Hofmann held it against the freezing iron of the locomotive shed, the paper damp with the condensation of his own breath. He was thirty-two, a railway inspector whose lungs had begun to betray him with a chronic, wet cough that tasted of copper and rust....

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