The Pale Meridian
The jar shattered on the flagstones, a sound like a bone snapping under the weight of a winter boot. My mentor, Dr. Alistair Thorne, did not flinch. He stood in the center of the laboratory, his silhouette sharp against the window where the industrial smog of 1904 London pressed against the glass like a living thing, gray and suffocating. He looked down at the shards of crystal and the viscous,...
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