The Wistful Crossroads
The brass compass in my hand was hot, not warm, but hot, like a coal wrapped in tin. I held it over the blueprint of the Old Mill, the needle spinning with a frantic, mechanical violence that seemed to defy the stillness of the archive room. It was pointing not to magnetic north, but straight down through the paper, toward the foundation stones of the building three blocks away. I knew the...
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