The Distant Joke
The hand was a ruin. It hung limp from the wrist, the knuckles swollen into purple lumps, the skin mapped with old scars that looked like dried riverbeds. Elias Thorne sat in the corner of the tavern, his back against the damp stone wall, and watched the fingers twitch. They were useless now. The tendon in the middle finger had been severed by a rusted nail three days ago, and the infection had...
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