The Distant Machine

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The letter lay on the oak table. It smelled of rain and iron. Elias wrote. The ink was blue. The pen was sharp. He held the quill. His hand did not shake. Not anymore. He looked out the window. The city slept. It was an old city. Stone and slate. The streets were wet. The fog was thick. It clung to the walls. It hid the spires. It swallowed the light. He was a boy. He was not old. But his eyes...

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