The Wistful Cipher

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The wind counted the hours at the border, a low, grinding rhythm against the stone. I had been standing watch for four hours, my boots sinking into the mud that smelled of rot and old iron. The mist was thick, a white shroud that swallowed the horizon and the road, leaving only the immediate world of the outpost walls. I was Elias Thorne, thirty-two years old, a border patrol officer with six...

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