The Wistful Crossroads

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The ink bled from the pores of my left thumb before I even touched the paper, a dark, viscous line that traced the vein beneath the skin. I stood in the office of Magistrate Aldous Thorne, the air thick with the scent of stale tobacco and the damp, metallic tang of the November rain lashing against the windowpanes. It was 1912, and I was thirty years old, a man whose hands had once drawn the...

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