Foundryside

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Cover photographs by Tif Andria/Shutterstock (window); Novikov Alex/Shutterstock (figure); Songquan Deng/Shutterstock (town); tan_tan/Shutterstock (key)

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For Jackson and Harvey

As Sancia Grado lay facedown in the mud, stuffed underneath the wooden deck next to the old stone wall, she reflected that this evening was not going at all as she had wanted.

It had started out decently. She’d used her forged identifications to make it onto the Michiel property, and that had gone swimmingly — the guards at the first gates had barely glanced at her.

Then she’d come to the drainage tunnel, and that had gone…less swimmingly. It had worked, she supposed — the drainage tunnel had allowed her to slink below all the interior gates and walls and get close to the Michiel foundry — but her informants had neglected to mention the tunnel’s abundance of centipedes, mud adders, and shit, of both the human and equine variety.

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