The Distant Machine
The mud was black and thick, clinging to your boots like wet tar, and the air tasted of iron and ozone. You were not a soldier, not in the way the old songs described them, but a keeper of the Threshold, a man whose hands were stained not with blood but with the soot of the Great Engine. The town of Oakhaven sat huddled in the valley, its stone houses hunched against the encroaching dark, the...
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