The Wistful Incense

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Chapter One In this city, the water does not just flow; it remembers. I was thirty-two years old, a constable with a debt of honor to a dead man, and I was bleeding ink that was not mine. The rain fell in sheets, cold and sharp, turning the canals into a mirror of the sky’s bruised purple. I fought them back, my boots slipping on the slick stones, as the mob pressed in, their faces twisted with...

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