The Distant Affair

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The ledger showed forty-two years of service, but the clock on the wall said only seven hours remained until the deadline. Elias Thorne sat in the basement archive, the air thick with the sour, metallic tang of decaying paper and the chemical sharpness of the new preservation solvent. He counted the pages of the late Chancellor Vane’s journals. One hundred and twelve. Each page was a debt. Each...

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