The Wistful Mountain
The road to the Abbey was a ribbon of grey stone, frayed at the edges by centuries of rain. We walked in silence. The air was thin, sharp as a blade. It tasted of iron and old snow. I carried my brother’s burden. It was not a sack of grain. It was a weight in the chest, a stone in the throat. It was his hands. They were bound with rope. The rope was thick. It was soaked with blood. We had taken...
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