The Wistful Incense

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The wind on the Ashen Steppe does not blow; it strips. It tears at the wool of your uniform and smells of sulfur and the metallic tang of old blood, a scent that has seeped into the shale beneath your boots for two decades. You are Elias Thorne, thirty-four years old, and you stand on the precipice with the pension papers in your hand, the ink still wet, the signature of the stationmaster...

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