The Pale Exile
The brass mainspring of the regulator clock was slipping, a hair’s breadth at a time, and my fingers were stained black with oil from the effort to hold it in place while the shop door creaked open behind me. It was a Tuesday, late afternoon, and the air in the workshop was thick with the smell of whale oil and the damp rot that always seeped up from the cellar when the barometer dropped. I did...
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