The Distant Threshold
The iron key was cold enough to burn the flesh, its teeth worn smooth by three generations of Thorne thumbs, and it sat in your palm like a dead bird. You held it up to the gray light of the highland dawn, watching the mist curl around the crate strapped to your back, a crate that smelled of crushed sage and old blood, and you told yourself that the weight was only wood and root, only the price...
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