The Wistful Cipher

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The decree of the Imperial Physician read: The stone is poison. The patient is lost. Do not touch the vessel. Thanasis Alexiou did not touch the vessel. He held it in the air, the glass sweating in the humid dark of the workshop, while the light from the single tallow stub flickered against the wall of borrowed tools. Outside, the wind pressed against the shutters, a physical weight that...

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