The Faded Frontier
The air in the Blackwood Textile Mill did not smell of cotton, but of ozone and old copper, a metallic tang that coated the back of Elias’s throat. He stood before Loom 7, his fingers hovering over the tension calibrators, listening to the rhythmic clatter that seemed to vibrate in his own molars. At twelve years old, Elias had the lean, hungry look of a boy who had traded his childhood for a...
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