The Distant Metropolis
The fog rolled into the valley of Ashford not as a mist but as a wall, a gray, suffocating shroud that swallowed the rooftops and the skeletal limbs of the oaks in the orchard. Inside the stone cottage, the air was thick with the scent of beeswax and old paper, a smell that seemed to hang suspended in the stillness, refusing to settle. Elias Thorne sat by the window, his hands resting on the...
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