The Distant Machine
The ink was still wet on the parchment, bleeding into the coarse fibers of the vellum, a dark stain that pulsed like a bruise under the skin. Aldous Thorne did not look at the words he had written. He looked instead at the object in his hands, the small, brass-bound cylinder that hummed with a frequency he could feel in his teeth, a vibration that tasted of copper and old rain. It was a...
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