The Distant Summer

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The mill burned at dawn. Not with a roar. With a sigh. The timber groaned, split, and fell. Smoke, thick and grey, swallowed the valley. Elias stood on the ridge. He watched. His hands trembled. He held nothing. No axe. No torch. Just the cold air biting his knuckles. The mill was his life. Forty years of splinters. Forty years of grain. Now, ash. Below, the river ran brown. He did not run...

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