The Titan Engine
Category: Sci-Fi
The letter was still on the table, unopened, as it had been for three days.
The market was bustling with merchants, their voices a chorus of bargains and boasts.
The fire had burned down to embers, but neither of them moved to stoke it.
She smiled, but it did not reach her eyes.
He had been waiting for her for what felt like an eternity.
He was the kind of man who kept his word, even when it cost him.
She had not expected to see him again, not after all these years.
The garden had been her mother’s pride, and now it was hers.
The end.