The Wistful Mirror
The vial held twelve drops, a precise quantity measured against the grain of the glass, each one a small, viscous promise of relief for Clara’s rattling lungs. Arthur Vane counted them again as the train lurched onto the bridge, the rhythmic clatter of the wheels a mechanical heartbeat that did nothing to steady his own. He was forty years old, a detective whose face had been worn smooth by the...
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