The Faded Masquerade

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The mud in the frozen riverbed was three inches deep and black as tar. You counted the seconds between your heartbeats, each one a hammer blow against the shattered bone of your left arm. The pain was not a sensation; it was a physical weight, a white-hot wire pulled tight from your shoulder to the silt beneath you. You were Elias Thorne, forty-two, and you had twenty hours of service left in...

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