The Wistful Silence

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The mortar is wet and cold under your fingers, a gray paste that smells of wet chalk and old iron. You are Elias, thirty-two years old, and you are pressing your thumb into the seam of the Grand Spire’s foundation to check for hairline fractures. The stone is humming. It is not a sound you hear with your ears but a vibration that travels up your arm, into your shoulder, and settles in the base...

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