The Wistful Silence
The rain did not fall so much as it hovered, a suspended grey mist that clung to the cobblestones of Whitechapel like a shroud. In the basement of a textile mill, where the air tasted of wet wool and rust, Elias sat on an overturned crate. He was not a man, not exactly. He was a knot of shadow, a whisper given weight, a thing that had worn the skin of a clockmaker for forty years until the...
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