The Wistful Atlas
The count of the dead had reached forty-three by noon, a number that felt less like a statistic and more like a physical weight pressing against Elias Thorne’s chest. He stood on the muddy ramparts of Avelon, the city’s last defensive line, gripping the silver circlet his wife, Martha, had pressed into his palm the night before the siege tightened its noose. The metal was cold, colder than the...
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