The Wistful Cipher

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The rain did not fall so much as it dissolved. It hung in the air of Harrow’s End, a grey mist that smelled of wet slate and old iron. Leo stood at the edge of the quarry, his boots sinking into the mud. He was twelve, all elbows and sharp edges, wearing a coat that had seen better decades. Beside him, the water was black and still. "You're late," Leo said. His voice was thin, stripped of...

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