The Faded Root
The mortar round hit the window of the safe house not with the dramatic thunder I had anticipated in my training, but with a soft, wet thud, like a ripe fruit falling from a high branch and bursting against the pavement, a sound that was almost intimate in its finality, leaving behind a lattice of shattered glass and a smell that was not quite smoke, not quite dust, but something older,...
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