Chapter 8 · free to read
Six weeks. The fog no longer waited for still nights. It went where it wanted, and it wanted the low streets first.
He was sixteen. The hands on the haft belonged to a man of thirty-five, and they had started to argue with him in the cold.
Wound the spiral forward and it swallowed the last street by the end of winter. Suzume counted it three times. It came out the same three times.
They had been taking Baku apart for a month — a lost order here, a spoiled shipment there. Never enough to accuse. Always enough to cost him.
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