The Faded Dust
The rain did not fall. It climbed. Elias stood on the platform. The air tasted of rust and wet wool. Beside him, Mara held his hand. Her grip was a vice. Her knuckles were white. "Let go," she said. He did not. The train was not a machine of steel and steam. It was a mouth. A black, yawning mouth. It breathed in the fog. It exhaled the past. "We must go," Mara whispered. Her voice was a thread....
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