The Distant Crown

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The Distant Crown

Chapter One "Entry 44: The Halo remains dormant. Custodian Pell reports no anomalies. Ledger balance: negative." Clifford Pell wiped the grease from his thumb and pressed it into the wet ink of the indenture paper. The stain was brown, the color of old blood, and it stuck to the skin with a gritty resistance. He was forty-five, a lockkeeper on the dying canal, and his hands shook not from cold...

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