The Distant Affair
The brass latch of the railway carriage door slid shut with a finality that felt like a bone setting, and Sergeant Elias Thorne pressed his thumb against the cold, greasy metal until the print left a pale, temporary mark. He was forty years old, a age that should have brought rest but instead brought only the grinding friction of joints that had spent two decades bearing the weight of others,...
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