The wax cylinder lay on the workbench like a severed finger, its...

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The wax cylinder lay on the workbench like a severed finger, its golden surface scored with grooves so fine they seemed to breathe in the gaslight.

Arthur Winchester stood over it with his magnifying loupe, his watchmaker's hands—steady enough to assemble a tourbillon movement—trembling just barely. Beside him, Isabella Crawford watched from the shadow of the doorway, her arms crossed, her face the colour of old parchment. "It's the last one," she said. Her voice was flat, the voice of a woman who had seen men die in Crimea and had not...

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