The Golden Crossing
The banquet hall of the Ironwood Barracks smelled of roasted mutton, stale beer, and the sharp, metallic tang of ozone that no one else seemed to detect. It was a celebration for the promotion of Captain Elias Thorne, a man whose face had become a map of the last decade’s anxieties, etched deep by wind and worry. The officers sat in long rows of polished oak, their uniforms stiff with brass...
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