The Distant Promise

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The left index finger was gone. Not severed. Not broken. Absent. A smooth, pink stump where the bone had once ended, polished by the friction of a thousand identical nights. Elias Vane held his hand up to the gray light of the basement window. The skin was taut. It looked like wax. It looked like a promise kept. The room smelled of damp wool and ozone. The air tasted metallic, sharp, like...

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