The Wistful Mountain
The mud was cold, a thick slurry of earth and shattered pine that sucked at Elias’s boots with every step. He stood on the collapsed ridge, the sky above a bruised and weeping gray, and watched the last of his capital wash away into the ravine. His ledger, soaked and useless, hung heavy in his hand, the ink running into black rivers that mirrored the stain of his ruin. Below him, the timber...
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