The Wistful Silence

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The mist on the northern ridge did not roll in; it sat, a thick, grey shroud that smelled of wet iron and old rain. Elias Thorne stood at the edge of the boundary line, his boots sinking into the mud that had never dried in twenty years of service. He was fifty-two, a border warden with a spine stiffened by decades of standing watch, and his hand trembled as he held the sector log against his...

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