The Faded Frontier
Chapter One My fingers were already black when I arrived, stained to the second knuckle from grinding the dried roots of the saltwort I had harvested near the hush harbor. I wiped them on my apron, leaving dark streaks across the coarse wool, and stepped into the Ministry of Records. The air inside was thick and cold, smelling of wet plaster and the sharp, metallic tang of the ink they used for...
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