The Distant Whispers
The mud on the pass was four inches deep and freezing solid at the edges, a grey slurry that sucked at Elias Thorne’s boots with the tenacity of a starving rat. He counted the steps he had taken since dawn, thirty-two in total, each one a negotiation with the treacherous stone beneath the muck. In his left hand, wrapped in oilskin that had long since lost its sheen, he held the parchment. It...
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