The Distant Clue
You stand at the edge of the pond, your boots sinking into the silt. The mud is cold. It sucks at your heels. You do not pull away. You are a clerk. You count numbers. You keep the ledgers of the mill. You know the weight of a sack of grain. You know the price of a broken axle. You do not know how to swim. You do not know why the water is so still. It is not a lake. It is a wound in the earth....
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