The Distant Joke

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The Distant Joke

The first thing that struck Elias was not the smell of the burning village, but the weight of the object in his hands. It was a simple thing, a brass compass whose casing had been rubbed smooth by decades of anxious thumbs, the glass cracked down the center like a frozen river. He held it against his chest, feeling the cold metal bite into his skin, a sharp, physical anchor to a reality that...

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