The Faded Dust

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The Faded Dust

The lever of the case opener bit into the rim of the gold pocket watch, a sound like a tooth cracking under pressure, and I held the two halves apart, suspended in the air, the mainspring coiled tight and trembling in the cold draft from the window. It was the finest piece I had made in twenty years, a chronometer of such delicate complexity that it seemed less a machine and more a captured...

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