• The Gilded Mantle
    The candles in Edinburgh Castle burned low when Alistair MacKenzie found the letter. It had been tucked behind a loose stone in the western tower, wrapped in oilcloth that smelled of damp and old secrets. Alistair, thirty-two years old and newly crowned Duke of the Highlands, should have been in his chambers celebrating. The coronation banquet had lasted until midnight. There had been music,...
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  • The Mantle
    The Mantle Dr. Elias Voss had been alone in the dark for seven months. The Watchstation sat at the edge of human knowledge—a cylindrical research facility orbiting a dead star in the Andromeda sector, surrounded by nothing but the slow, indifferent expansion of the universe. His job was simple: monitor the deep-space geological sensors, log the data, and send it back to Earth every six weeks...
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  • The Forgotten Witness
    I am told this deposition shall be entered into the permanent record of the Magistracy of the Sixteenth Canon, under the provision for posthumous testimony, which is to say testimony given by one whose standing has been formally erased, and that the scribe shall transcribe my words exactly as I deliver them, with all their infelicities and, God help me, their jokes, because I have been informed...
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