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« II Ars
Perseus woke on the floor of his workshop. He lay there, blinking up at the ceiling – vision blurred in his left-eye, unfocused in his right, head swimming – as coherence found its way to his thoughts. The oil lanterns hanging from ceiling fixtures across the...
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« I Ars
When Tuvius Acer left his house, a little after daybreak, he was on a mission.
Gone was the man who had turned up on the doorstep of Perseus Artifex some two nights prior, shaking and out of breath. The Acer of today was calm, collected, and the very picture...
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It was half-past midnight when Tuvius Acer arrived, pale and shaking, on the doorstep of Perseus Artifex Vanitas’s studio apartment.
Long-limbed, tall, with a narrow jaw and shrewd, amber-brown eyes, Acer usually cut an impressive, professional figure in tailored...