The Distant Joke

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The Distant Joke

The brass badge sat heavy in Elias Thorne’s palm, its surface warm from the friction of his thumb, a weight that seemed to anchor him to the floorboards of the council chamber while the air above him churned with the cold, bureaucratic silence of the men who had stripped him of his authority. He was forty years old, a Ranger for two decades, a man whose silence had been a fortress built from...

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