The Distant Threshold
My hands were already in the mud when I reached for the trowel, the cold seeping through the leather of my gloves into the bone. The earth was soft, a dark, breathing thing that had swallowed the foot of the old boundary stone three weeks prior, and I scraped at it with a desperation that felt less like work and more like a prayer. I was forty years old, a master mason of the City of York, and...
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