The Distant Machine

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The iron is cold, but the air in the forge is thick with the smell of sulfur and old blood. I am Elias, and I am thirty-two years old, a blacksmith in Oakhaven. My hands are shaking. They have been shaking for three days. I hold the hammer, but it feels like a dead thing in my grip. Across the anvil, the bell sits. It is not a bell in the way you think. It is a mouth, sealed shut, waiting to...

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