The Wistful Atlas

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The Wistful Atlas

The rain at the Iron Gate did not fall; it hung, a suspension of ice and memory that bit through wool and bone. Elias Thorne stood at the center of the gate, his rifle leveled at a shadow that defied the wind, the metal cold against his cheek. He was forty years old, his face a map of the years spent in this frozen border, and his only desire was to see the dawn so that his pension could secure...

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