The Faded Ruin

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The Faded Ruin

The axe bit into the oak. It did not ring. It did not crack. It sank into the wood like a knife into wet clay, silent and final. Elias watched the blade disappear. He did not pull it out. He simply let the handle rest in the dark grain. Around him, the forest was not a forest. It was a cage of iron bars, twisted into the shapes of birches and pines. The sky above was a low ceiling of gray...

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