The Faded Dust
The needle pricks your wrist. You do not flinch. You have learned that flinching breaks the rhythm, and a broken rhythm snaps the brass teeth. The Grand Meridian demands payment. One drop for the hour hand. Two for the minute. The clockmaker’s trade is a blood trade, they say in the court, but you have always believed it to be a metaphor for precision. You are wrong. The blood is real. The...
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