The Pale Mist

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The Pale Mist

The brass casing of the compass was fractured, a jagged scar running from the bezel to the glass, and I held it so tightly that the metal bit into the meat of my palm, a cold, metallic pain that grounded me in the swirling, sulfurous fog of the London streets. It was 1913, and the air tasted of coal smoke and impending war, but the true cold came from the figure standing ten paces away, a pale,...

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