The Distant Threshold

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The bus smelled of wet wool and diesel. I counted the stops. One. Two. My brother, Elias, sat across from me. He was shivering. Not from cold. From the hum. I looked at his hand. His finger. The left index. It was gone. Not cut. Just... absent. A smooth stump where the bone should have been. "Did you count?" I asked. My voice was flat. Professional. We were engineers. We dealt in loads and...

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