The Pale Mist
Elias held the brass compass in his left hand, the metal cold and heavy against his palm. The needle twitched, a faint, drunken wobble that did not settle. It was the weight of the instrument that grounded him, the solid, unyielding fact of brass and glass, even as the fog around the highland ridge swallowed the world whole. He had wanted this quiet. He had wanted the pension check to arrive...
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