The Distant Machine

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The letter was sealed with a wax stamp that had cracked in the cold, the red resin flaking away like dried blood as Silas Whitmore held it in his trembling, gloved hands, standing alone in the vast, silent hall of the Old Guard Barracks where the air tasted of rust and forgotten prayers. He was a man who had spent thirty years listening to the command to hold the line, to resist the encroaching...

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