The Distant Summer
The snow at Kael’s Ridge did not fall so much as it settled, a heavy, gray burial shroud that muffled the wind and the world. I was thirty-two years old, a border constable with six years of service, and my only thought was the permanent commission waiting for me at the end of this winter. The new protocols from the central authority were rigid, cold, and absolute, demanding a compliance that...
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