The Distant Threshold
The rain had been falling for three hours, a steady, cold sheet that turned the moor into a grey, sucking mire, and Elias Thorne counted the seconds between each heavy drop to keep his mind from drifting into the silence that waited for him. He was fifty-four years old, and his knees ached with a dull, persistent throb that spoke of twenty years of marching on broken ground, of carrying a heavy...
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