The Distant Threshold
The ink is dry. You know this because the paper has warped, curling at the edges like a dead leaf. It is a single sheet, pinned to the rough-hewn oak of your cell door. The symbol is a circle, bisected by a vertical line. A threshold. A boundary. It was your father’s mark. He pressed it into your palm when you were three, a secret language of stone and soil. Now, it is your shackle. You are in...
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