The Pale Meridian
The heavy iron key, cold and pitted with rust, lay in Elias Thorne’s palm, its weight a physical anchor against the rising tide of nausea that had settled in his gut since dawn. He stood before the crumbling stone arch of the old customs house, a relic of a border that no longer existed, yet whose bureaucratic ghosts still haunted the files in the district office. The stone was grey and...
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