The Last Syllable
I. The fog rolled off the Thames like a living thing, thick and yellow, swallowing the gas lamps whole. Thomas Blackwood stood on the embankment at three in the morning, his boots soaked through, his coat heavy with rain that had stopped falling an hour ago. He had been drinking since dusk, and the gin still burned in his throat like a warning he had chosen to ignore. He had come to the river...
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