The Distant Wound

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The Distant Wound

The mist had not lifted in forty years, or perhaps it had never been there at all, only the memory of it, a thick, wet wool pressed against the face of the world. I remember the smell of it first. It was not the smell of rain, nor the metallic tang of iron, but something older, something like the breath of a sleeping beast, heavy with the scent of crushed pine needles and old stone. We were...

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