The Distant Machine

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The ink on the parchment was not quite dry when I began to feel the cold settle into the marrow of my bones. It was a specific chill, distinct from the autumn wind that rattled the leaded panes of my study in Blackwood Hall, a chill that smelled of ozone and old copper. I was not the Master of the House, nor was I the scribe who copied the ledgers for the estate, though I held the pen with a...

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