The Faded Portrait
The compass in your hand weighs three ounces, a small brass thing that has outlived the map it was built for. You have counted the hours since you last saw the sun, four since the last time you saw the sky, and you know that the winter freeze is not a metaphor but a physical weight pressing against the granite face of Mount Kael. You are Elias Thorne, forty-two, a man who spent twenty years...
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