The Wistful Cipher
The clock on the mantelpiece had stopped at 4:17, and I counted the seconds since the last chime, forty-three in all, while I weighed the Whispering Stone in my left hand. It was heavy, a dense, cold thing of black basalt, cracked down the center like a dried riverbed. In my right hand, I held a ledger, its pages filled with the names of men who had died in the service of the Crown, and the...
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