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Lanterns for the Drowned Hour · Chapter 7, “The Weight of Wicks”

The lamplighter's daughter counted the lanterns twice, as she did every night, and twice arrived at a number the harbour had not owned since the flood. She wrote it in the margin of the ledger anyway, small and slanted, the way you write a thing you mean to deny later.