The Distant Blade

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The Distant Blade

Chapter One Senga Balfour, thirty-two, a junior archivist in the Ministry of Memory, wanted to retrieve his deceased brother’s sealed file to prove his innocence before the annual purge. The cold in the shipyards was a physical fact, a weight that froze the well water until the ice cracked with a sound like a pewter set down on oak. I stood in the archive, the air heavy with damp paper and old...

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