The Wistful Mountain

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The ink was dry before Elias had finished the sentence. It sat on the permit form like a scab, black and brittle, refusing to yield to the nib of his pen. The rain had stopped, but the air in the customs house was still wet, thick with the smell of wet limestone and the metallic tang of old iron. Elias Thorne, forty-two, a man whose face had been mapped by twenty years of wind and duty, stared...

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