The Fire of Westminster
The fog that rolled down from Hampstead Heath on a November evening in 1883 did not behave like ordinary weather. It moved with purpose, thick and yellow as bruised flesh, swallowing the gas lamps whole. William Windsor III stood at the second-floor window of Blackwood Manor and watched it come, his hands gripping the windowsill so hard his knuckles had gone white beneath the tarnished silver...
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