The Wistful Mountain
The mist did not roll in; it exhaled. It rose from the jagged teeth of the Blackwood Ridge like a breath held too long, thick with the scent of wet iron and rotting pine. Elias Thorne stood at the pass, his knees grinding against the damp cold, fifty-two years of service compressed into the ache of his joints. He wanted the pension. He wanted the quiet certainty of a life measured in hours...
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