The Wistful Ashes

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The Wistful Ashes

The room smelled of ozone and stale tobacco, a dry, electric scent that clung to the back of the throat, and in the center of the dust-mote thick air, the glass sphere sat on its velvet pad, humming with a low, subsonic vibration that made the teeth ache, and Arthur Penhaligon, whose hands were stained with the blue ink of the ledger he had been keeping for three years, watched the sphere with...

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