The Faded Frontier
The axe bites into the pine bark. You feel the vibration travel up the haft, into your wrist, into the shoulder socket where the old injury still aches like a phantom limb. The wood splinters. It is loud. It is real. You are not dead yet. Elias stands ten paces away. He watches. He does not help. He holds a lantern, the flame steady despite the wind that howls through the valley like a wounded...
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