The Distant Metropolis

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The jar sits on the mahogany desk, its glass surface catching the cold, blue light of the London dawn. It is filled with a substance that is not quite honey, not quite syrup, but something viscous and amber, smelling faintly of burnt sugar and old paper. You know what it is. You have known since the night your mother, Eleanor, first pressed her cool, trembling fingers against your forehead and...

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