The Wistful Atlas

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The Wistful Atlas

The draft in the Blackwood Tunnel did not smell of earth or decay, but of something sharper, like iron filings and cold water. Sergeant Elias Thorne stood at the mouth of the shaft, his breath misting in the November air, watching the brass compass in his left hand spin with a frantic, jerky rhythm that had nothing to do with magnetism. It was 1912, and the border was quiet, but the mine was...

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