The Faded Dust
The nib of the fountain pen scraped against the heavy vellum, leaving a scratch in the fiber that smelled of iron and old blood. Arthur Vane held his breath, the air in the ledger room thick with the scent of drying glue and the damp, rotting wool of the carpet. He was thirty years old, a junior clerk at Halloway & Sons, and his hands were trembling not from fear, but from the sheer, electric...
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