The Distant Garden

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The brass compass in Elias’s hand was warm. It hummed against his palm, a low, sickening vibration that traveled up his wrist and settled in his teeth. He was ten years old, his boots sinking into the wet, sucking mud of the trench, and the rain had stopped an hour ago, leaving the air thick with the smell of wet iron and rot. Captain Vane stood three feet away, his face a mask of pale, rigid...

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