The Wistful Atlas

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The Wistful Atlas

The stone walls of the infirmary sweated with a dampness that smelled of iron and rot, a pervasive mist that clung to the linen sheets and the skin of the dying. Colonel Elias Thorne sat rigid on the edge of the cot, his hand gripping the cold fingers of his wife, Margaret, with a force that bordered on violence, as if he could physically anchor her soul to the meat of her body through sheer...

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