The Wistful Mountain

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The house stood on the ridge, a skeletal thing of stone and rot. It had waited for me for forty years. I stood at the base of the hill, looking up, the wind pulling at my coat. The air was thin here. It tasted of iron and dry leaves. I had come to find the truth. Or so I told myself. I had come to finish the job. The institution had sent me. They always did. I was a tool for them. A scraper for...

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