The Distant Promise
The iron poker was cold, heavier than it looked, and Arthur Vane held it with a grip that had begun to ache three hours ago. The train had stopped in the void of the night, the wheels ticking a rhythmic, hollow song against the tracks. He was sixteen, a junior clerk with ink-stained fingers and a debt that smelled of rotting apples, and he was going to Blackwood to collect a life’s work of...
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