The Wistful Incense

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The fog in Aethel was not weather, but debt. Qiang Yang held his cracked whistle to his lips, the plastic cold against the wet chill of the parade ground. He was thirty-two, a border guard whose piece rates had been cut without notice, leaving him with less than the cost of a new jade pendant. His mother, Li, coughed black mist from her lungs, a sound like dry leaves skittering over stone. He...

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