The Distant Cartograph

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My hands were caked in the grey sludge of the northern marsh, the mud drying into hard, cracked plates under the fingernails as I scrubbed at the survey board. The smell of wet iron and decaying peat hung thick in the air, a scent that seemed to cling to the inside of my nose, making it difficult to breathe deeply. I was Elias, thirty-two, a clerk in Oakhaven, and I had to finish the mapping...

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