The Distant Wound

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The Distant Wound

The feast in the village square was a lie of smoke and roasted pork, a performance for the eyes of the State. You stood at the edge of the firelight, your hands stained with the grease of gears, watching the Magistrate’s men carve the meat with ceremonial knives. The Great Chronometer stood in the center, a monolith of iron and bone, silent for three days. It was dead. The silence was louder...

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