The Pale Circus
Act I The causeway at Yuzhou drowned twice a day, swallowing the lower docks in a grey swell that smelled of rotting kelp and old iron, while the merchants on the upper quay haggled over crates of contraband silk with the frantic energy of men who knew the strike vote was tomorrow. Fang Hu stood at the edge of the water, his hands wrapped around a leather satchel that held his wife’s last hope,...
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