The Distant Promise

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The rain did not fall so much as it hovered, a suspended gray veil that blurred the edges of the valley and the world beyond. In the stone-walled infirmary at the edge of the village, old Elias Thorne sat on the edge of his bed, his hands resting on his knees. His fingers were long, spindly things, mapped with veins that looked like dried riverbeds under translucent skin. For forty years, he...

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