The Golden Scar
The air in the valley did not smell of earth or rain. It smelled of copper and ozone, a metallic tang that coated the back of the throat and lingered long after a breath. I was twelve years old when the sky turned the color of a bruised plum, and we were told that the rain was not water. It was filtration. It was purity. The adults said this with the calm, hollow certainty of people who had...
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