The Distant Blade

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The Distant Blade

Chapter One You learn the weight of a thing only when it stops moving. I learned the weight of ink when it stopped moving in the nib and began moving in my skin. It was a Tuesday in the fourth month of the year, the air thick with the dry thunder of no rain, and I stood before the Chief Archivist’s desk, my hand trembling not from fear but from the cold seeping up from the paper. The new...

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