The Distant Threshold
The order slip was yellowed, the ink faded to a bruise-purple. Sergeant Elias Thorne read it twice on the swaying train, the paper trembling in his hand. *Retrieve Ledger 44-B from the Oakhaven holding cells. Report to Captain Halloway upon arrival.* Below the signature, a debt was listed: *Promotion contingent on completion.* Thorne was thirty-four, and he had been a sergeant for six years,...
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