The Wistful Crossroads
The ledger lay open on the anvil, its pages thick with the weight of twenty years’ labor, and you counted the hours again, your breath shallow and quick in the cold air of the forge. Four hundred and twelve strikes had gone into the blade, each one a payment toward the debt that held your family’s name in the village’s ledger, yet the metal remained soft, yielding to your hammer like wet clay....
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