The Faded Frontier
I am writing this from the cold, after the blade has fallen, but I remember the heat of the dock, the way the air tasted of rust and old sweat. I was thirty-two, a border guard with a pension three years away, and I wanted only the name of the man bleeding the treasury dry. The mist in Veldt was not weather; it was a wall. My father’s name had vanished from the roster of loyal officers that...
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