The Distant Blade

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The Distant Blade

The letter lay on the desk, the paper thin and yellowed by the heat of the boiler room. It was a notice of pension eligibility, the ink smudged where your thumb had pressed the seal. You were forty years old, Elias Thorne, and the winter freeze was coming. The Ironworks Palace did not care for your age; it cared only for the names. You signed the form. The signature was shaky, the pen...

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