The Distant Summer
The brass lever is stuck. You force it with your thumb, the skin peeling back in a thin, white ribbon, and the mechanism shudders. It is three in the morning in Oren, and the light from the oil lamp is a sickly yellow pool on the workbench, illuminating the dust motes that hang suspended in the air, refusing to fall. You are Elias, thirty-two, and your hands are steady even as your heart...
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