The Pale Shadows
The specimen is wet, you must understand, and the light in the reading room is failing, so the tremor in your hand is not a failure of nerve but a simple fact of physics, a friction between the glass slide and the humidity that has been rising since the morning fog rolled in off the Thames. You are Dr. Elias Thorne, forty years old, a senior archivist at the Royal Botanical Institute, and you...
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