The Distant Garden

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The gate was not a gate. It was a ribcage of iron, twisted into an arch that seemed to breathe with a slow, wet rhythm. Elias Thorne stood before it, his boots sinking into the mud that smelled of rot and old blood. He was forty-two years old, a sergeant who had marched through three winters of plague and one summer of fire, and he was tired in a way that sleep could not fix. The mist around...

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