The Golden Echoes
The rain did not fall. It hung. A gray curtain stitched to the sky. I left the barracks as the bell tolled for morning. My boots were wet. The stone was cold. I walked toward the gate. The gate was iron. It groaned. I pushed it open. The city waited. It was not a city. It was a wound. The towers leaned. They had stood for a hundred years. They would stand for one more. Not because they were...
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