Chapter 32 - Thirty Two. Return to Hancock

Chapter 32: Chapter Thirty Two. Return to Hancock

It came like a sharp sting to the nose, blocking his enhanced airways with a coarse odour.

It was smoke, the heavy kind that came from stone and timber burning together rather than a campfire or a hearth. It sat in the air above the valley road like weather, thick and heavy, the kind of smell that didn’t dissipate the way ordinary smoke did but settled into everything it touched and stayed there. Then underneath it, fainter but unmistakable, the specific sourness of things that had burned and weren’t burning anymore.

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