The Wistful Mountain
The order arrived at dawn, stamped with the black ink of the Ministry of Border Affairs, the paper thin and brittle as the frost that had already claimed the eastern wall of the watchtower. I read it standing on the parapet, the wind whipping the parchment against my gloved hand, the text a bureaucratic list of violations that ended with a single, final instruction: reinforce the structure...
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