The Distant Clue

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The Distant Clue

The ink on my hands did not wash out, a black stain that seemed to seep into the grain of my skin, marking me as much a part of the machinery as the gears themselves. I sat in the damp cold of the derelict printing house, the air thick with the scent of rust and old paper, waiting for the sun to bleed through the high, grimy windows of Oakhaven. I was thirty-two, a constable with twelve years...

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