The Distant Joke

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The Distant Joke

The iron key hung heavy in my palm, cold as a river stone, its teeth worn smooth by twenty years of turning locks that should have stayed closed. I stood at the edge of the Vale of Oren, where the mist lay thick and gray, smelling of wet wool and rotting iron. Three days had passed since Kael vanished near the standing stones, and the silence of the village was louder than any scream. I was...

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