The Wistful Cipher

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Thorne. The word hung in the air, sharp as a chisel tip, spoken by the village elder who stood in the doorway of your workshop, his breath pluming in the cold. You looked up from the bench, your fingers stained with brass dust and dried blood, and saw the fear in his eyes, a fear that had nothing to do with the winter settling over the valley. You were forty-two, a man who had spent three...

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