The Wistful Cipher

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The dream was always the same: a silver locket, tarnished to the color of dried blood, resting on a bed of rusted iron filings. Arthur Vane woke with the taste of metal in his mouth and the heat of the locket against his sternum, a pulsing warmth that had no business existing in the chill of his narrow cot. He was twelve, though he felt older, older in the way that worry ages a boy. He pulled...

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