The Golden Crossing

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The border was not a line. It was a smell. It was the rot of pine needles mixed with the sharp, metallic tang of old blood. Sergeant Elias Thorne held the map. It was yellowed, the ink faded to a ghostly gray. The path boundary was marked in red. Or it had been. Now, the red had bled out, leaving only a faint, rusty scar in the paper. He had held this map for twenty years. His fingers were...

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