The Wistful Mountain

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The iron badge lies in your palm, cold and heavy, its surface scratched by years of polishing that never quite reached the deep gouges. You are Elias Thorne, forty-two, a constable in the walled town of Oakhaven, and you are shaking. The tremor starts in the wrist and travels up the forearm, a fine, persistent vibration that makes the metal rattle against your skin like a coin in a cup. You...

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