The Distant Machine
The scale read forty-two tons, but the manifest said twelve. I stood in the sterile hum of the Rotterdam terminal, the fluorescent lights buzzing a low, irritating note against my temples, and watched the digital numbers flicker with a certainty that felt like a personal insult. I am fifty-two years old, Elias Thorne, and I have spent thirty years ensuring that what enters this port matches...
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