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The Night of the Thousandth Page

La noche de la página mil

Nobody in seven hundred years has read all thousand pages of the djinn's contract. Vega has one year, one candle at a time, a nearly blind clerk who remembers every legal formula ever written — and the growing suspicion that her tormentor wants her to find something.

Part 2 of 2 in The Fine Print of Wishes

La primera vela duró tres cláusulas. «A este paso —calculó Rosario—, terminarás el contrato cuando seas abuela». «Pues iremos más deprisa».

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