The Distant Machine

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Chapter One Roxana Salehi’s fingers were slick with the oil of the astrolabe’s central pivot when the door to the caravanserai’s annex burst open, shattering the low hum of the television that had been playing a silent newsreel on the loop for the last three hours. She did not look up; she knew the weight of the men who entered by the way the floorboards groaned under their boots, a sound...

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