The Wistful Mountain
The air on the ridge tasted of iron and rusted pennies, a metallic tang that coated the back of Ahmad bin Lazim’s throat as he stood at the edge of the mist. He was twelve, small for his age, with hands roughened by the friction of the lamplighter’s kit he no longer used, and he held the factory siren schedule in his pocket, the paper brittle and stained with grease. The elders had called the...
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