The Wistful Cipher

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The fog rolls in from the river, thick and wet as wool, clinging to the cobblestones of Millhaven where the air tastes of iron and old rain, and you are standing in the doorway of the clockmaker’s shop, holding a brass key that does not fit any lock you have ever seen, a key that hums against your palm like a trapped bird, a key that smells of lavender and decay, and you know, with a certainty...

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