The Distant Summer
The mainspring snapped. It did not break with a sharp crack, but with a wet, tearing sound, like a tendon giving way under strain. You stared at the exposed mechanism on the workbench, the brass gears suspended in a state of arrested motion, and felt the sudden, crushing weight of your own exhaustion. Your hands, usually steady as stone, were trembling violently. You were Elias Thorne,...
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