Act VII: The Wall
The silence at the Jensen property wasn't the watchful, sentient hush of Brody’s house. It was a stagnant, heavy thing, smelling of rusted iron, spilled diesel, and twenty years of curdled ambition. Denton Jensen sat on the porch of his trailer, the wood groaning under his weight, a free man in a landscape that looked like a graveyard for machines. The gavel had fallen in the city, the "reasonable doubt" had been meticulously manufactured by high-priced lawyers he’d never