The Wistful Dinner
The silver signet ring is cold against your palm, a dead weight of expectation. You are Elias, thirty-two, a border warden with a spine made of iron and a heart made of rust, and you are leaving. The train to the capital hisses in the fog, a black snake coiling in the grey void of the station. You do not look back at the platform where the other travelers wait, shivering in their wool coats....
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