The Wistful Mountain
The brass escapement slipped between Elias Thorne’s fingers, cold and slick with the oil that had soaked into the grain of his skin over fifty-two years. He held it up to the grey light filtering through the workshop window, his hands trembling not from age, but from the sheer, terrifying weight of the mechanism resting in the tower above. The town of Oakhaven smelled of wet wool and coal...
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