The Golden Mirror

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The Golden Mirror

The ink on my fingers is not black, but a wet, trembling gold, and it smells of ozone and old blood. I am writing this letter by the guttering light of a tallow candle in the cellar of the Magistrate’s house, my hands shaking so violently that the parchment tears beneath my pen. My name is Arthur Vane, and I am a clerk, a man of no standing, no coin, and no hope, except for the twelve-year-old...

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