The root of all longing grows in places the map has forgotten. Thomas Calloway knew this the way a drowning man knows the weight of water — not as fact, but as something felt in the bones.
Whitechapel, October 1888. The fog rolled off the Thames like a shroud being drawn across a corpse, and Thomas's single room above a disbanded boarding house on Dorset Street held the kind of cold that no amount of newspaper in the grate could fight. On the table before him sat three bowls — one with dried yarrow he'd bought from a peddler near Spitalfields Market, another with crushed...
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