The Distant Promise
The fog did not roll in; it exhaled. It crept under the door of the farmhouse like a living thing, cold and damp, smelling of wet stone and old iron. Elias stood by the window, watching the gray wall swallow the oak tree they had planted the year Clara died. He was thirty-two, though his hands looked older, cracked and rough from surveying land that was slowly ceasing to exist. The debt was due...
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