The Distant Machine

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The rain did not fall. It hung. A grey curtain, thick as wool, stretched across the valley floor. It smelled of wet iron and rotting pine. Sergeant Elias Thorne stood alone in the mud. His boots sank to the ankle. He did not move. He looked at his hands. They were red. Not with blood. With rust. A deep, orange crust that had eaten into the knuckles. He had been there for three days. No one had...

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