The Distant Wound

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The Distant Wound

The ink was wet. It glistened on the parchment like a fresh wound, black and slick against the cream of the paper. Elias Thorne held the quill still, his hand trembling not from the cold, which was a biting, industrial chill that seeped through the stone floor of the attic, but from the sheer weight of the word he had just formed. *Freedom*. The letters hung in the air, suspended by the heavy,...

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