The Faded Bouquet

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The Faded Bouquet

The air in the workshop did not smell of oil or brass, as a clockmaker’s sanctum ought to, but of ozone and the sweet, cloying rot of overripe fruit. Elias Thorne sat hunched over the workbench, his magnifying lens pressed to the bridge of his nose, his fingers trembling with a precision that bordered on spasm. He was forty years old, though his face bore the etched lines of a man twice that...

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