The Faded Portrait

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The banquet hall of the Pneumatic Conservatory did not smell of food. It smelled of ozone, burnt copper, and the sharp, metallic tang of high-pressure steam. The chandeliers were not glass, but cages of spinning brass gears, casting jagged, flickering shadows across the long table. I sat at the head, not because I was the host, but because the chair was the only one that wasn't vibrating. My...

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