The Golden Maze
The soot did not merely dirty the air in the Ashworth Mill; it inhabited it. It settled in the crevices of Thomas’s knuckles, in the fine lines around his eyes, and in the hollows of his throat, a constant, gritty reminder of the coal that fed the great steam engines. Thomas was a man composed of ash and regret, a convict in all but name, bound by the chains of a debt he could never repay and a...
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