The Faded Bouquet
The iron was cold in Elias Thorne’s hands, a slab of grey potential that felt heavier than it had the day it arrived. He stood in the center of the foundry, the air thick with the smell of sulfur and old sweat, the hammer resting against his thigh like a dead bird. The rhythmic clanging of the forge had stopped an hour ago, leaving a silence that was not empty but pressurized, a vacuum waiting...
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