The Distant Ghost

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The Distant Ghost

Could a man buy back the dead? Giovanni Costa asked the question to the customs officer, a man named Paolo, who was weighing a bale of stolen silk on a merchant’s folding scale. The scale tipped, the weight of the fabric pressing down on the counter, and Paolo looked up with eyes that held no pity, only the cold calculation of a man who owed the guild three months’ wages. Giovanni stood in the...

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