The Wistful Cipher

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The mud of the Somme did not smell of death, but of wet iron and old pennies. Sergeant Elias Thorne knelt in the slurry, his knees sinking into the black earth, his hands bleeding where they scraped against the frozen ground. He was looking for a tag. A simple, brass oval with a name stamped into the metal. Without it, his son Arthur was not dead; he was merely missing, a bureaucratic ghost...

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