The Distant Threshold

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The candle had burned down to a stub of wax, leaving only a faint, oily smear on the brass holder, and you counted the hours since the last time you slept by the slow, rhythmic dripping of ink from the quill into the well. You had spent the last three nights trying to align the mercury with the sulfur, your fingers stained black up to the second knuckle, while the court scribes outside your...

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