The Faded Shield

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The Faded Shield

The rain fell in sheets of gray iron, hammering against the tin roofs of the district where the old factories stood like broken teeth, and Elias Thorne walked through the mud with a sense of weight in his limbs that was not merely physical but a deep, cellular exhaustion born of years spent holding his breath. He carried a wooden box in his hands, the grain of the oak dark and wet, and inside...

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