The Wistful Mountain

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I held the compass in my left hand, the brass case worn smooth by twenty years of thumb and frost. It was a small, cold weight, a thing of metal and glass that had guided me across the northern ridge since I was a boy of twelve, standing on the porch while my father pointed out the peaks with a stick of dried birch. The needle trembled, seeking north, a faint vibration I felt in the bone of my...

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