The Wistful Silence
The mill stood against the sky like a wound that refused to close. It was a place of stone and silence, built by hands long turned to dust, where the wind whistled through the cracks in the mortar and sounded like a warning no one listened to. Elias sat on the cold flagstones, his knees drawn to his chest. He was ten years old, thin as a reed, with eyes that held a depth older than his face....
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