The Faded Guest

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The Faded Guest

The banquet hall of the Iron Foundry did not smell of roast beef or spiced wine, but of ozone, hot coal, and the metallic tang of blood. It was a feast held in the twilight of the nineteenth century, where the steam pipes groaned like wounded beasts and the chandeliers flickered with an electric hum that vibrated in the teeth. At the center of this industrial cathedral stood Silas Vane, a man...

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