The Golden Circuit
October 12, 1893 The hand is gold now. It is not a metaphor. The skin over the knuckles has turned to metal, hard and yellow, and when I flex the fingers, they do not bend but scrape against each other with a sound like dry leaves. I cannot feel the cold mist of the borderlands, only a deep, throbbing heat that pulses from the wrist to the elbow. I want to go home, to the house in the village...
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