The Wistful Mountain

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The stone gate of the Hollow did not open for Elias Thorne, a fact that hung in the iron-tasting air like a suspended execution, as he pressed his shoulder against the ancient, weeping masonry that had guarded this threshold for a century. He was forty years old, a border warden with twenty years of service etched into the deep lines of his face and the permanent stiffness of his joints, and he...

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