The Wistful Silence
The iron whetstone was warm from my hands, a dull, brick-red block of Arkansas shale that had outlived three dynasties of smiths in the Ashworth foundry. It sat on the anvil, sweating a faint metallic vapor, waiting for the next strike. I was the only one in the hall who knew it was breathing. Not in the way a living thing breathes, with lungs and air, but with a slow, tectonic pulse that...
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