The Faded Bouquet
The rain did not fall. It hung. It was a gray curtain, thick as wool, draped over the moor. Elias stood at the edge of the heath. His boots were soft with mud. The smell of wet stone and rot filled his nose. He was a clerk. A man of ledgers and quiet rooms. But here, the air was different. It tasted of iron. He looked up. The sky was a bruise. Purple and black. It did not move. It watched him....
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