The Distant Machine

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The rain lashed the high, barred windows of the Blackwood Asylum, a rhythmic drumming that masked the low, ceaseless hum of the Distant Machine. Elias Thorne, Senior Inspector, sat at his heavy oak desk, the ink in his nib drying into a black scar as he stared at the empty chair across from him. He wanted Julian to come home, to see the work, to forgive the silence that had stretched between...

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