The Distant Machine
14 October 1893 Elias, you are wasting the light. The voice belonged to Lord Vane, though the words were spoken in the hollow of my own skull, a phantom summons that has not ceased since the autumn turned the leaves to rust. I sit now in the cramped room above the workshop, the air thick with the scent of whale oil and the metallic tang of my father’s failing breath, and I write to you, my only...
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