The Faded Dust

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The Faded Dust

Act I I was lacing the boots when the stone cracked, a sound like a dry branch snapping underfoot, and I knew the pass was dying before the winter snows could seal it shut. The wind off the highlands carried the smell of wet chalk and old blood, a cold that bit through my wool coat and settled in the marrow of my bones. I had forty-five years of service in the border patrol, a war bond that...

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