The Golden Oath
The fog did not drift; it crept, a low-hanging shroud that smelled of wet iron and old blood. Elias Thorne stood at the edge of the mill race, his hand resting on the cold oak of his badge, watching the gray mist swallow the last of the wheat in the lower field. He was thirty-four years old, and he had twelve days left to pay off his brother’s medical debt, a sum that had grown teeth in the...
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