The Distant Blade

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The Distant Blade

The fog in Oakhaven does not lift; it waits. It sits on the cobblestones like a wet wool blanket, smelling of rot and old iron. I am Elias, forty-two, the town clerk. My hands are stained with ink that will not wash out, a permanent map of my duty. My brother Thomas is dying. The wasting sickness has taken his color, his strength, and now, slowly, his voice. The elders say it is the damp. They...

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