The Pale Exile
The fire did not roar so much as it sighed, a low, wet exhalation that curled through the rafters of my shop on Baker Street until the air itself seemed to curdle into ash and sulfur. I stood now in the charred skeleton of what had been my livelihood for twenty years, the smell of burnt brass and old wood thick in my throat, while the November rain lashed against the broken remnants of the...
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