The White Crow
The clinic on Mayfair's Harley Street smelled of opium and carbolic acid, a scent that Julian Vane found, in their contradiction, to be the most beautiful thing in the world. Opium offered escape; carbolic offered control. Between them, in the space where one substance numbed the nerves and the other sterilized the wound, Julian had built his life's work: the study of pain, its aesthetics, its...
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