The Distant Ghost

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The Distant Ghost

The ledger had three hundred and twelve pages, and Elara Vane had counted every single one of them twice, the leather spine cracked like old skin under her thumbs, the air in the archive thick with the smell of dust and the faint, metallic tang of fear. It was November, 1912, and the gas lamps in the St. Jude’s Industrial Registry had not yet been lit, but the light from the high windows was...

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