The Distant Metropolis

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Act I Hovhannes Ivanovic’s hands were black with soot and the grease of old machinery. He was forty-two, a rag-and-bone collector in a valley where the salt air rotted the wood beams of the estate. His master, Lord Vartan, lay in the botanical greenhouse, wasting away. The air in there was thick, smelling of damp earth and dying flowers. Hovhannes held a small vial of amber liquid. It tasted of...

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