The Flaneur

The Flaneur

The Devil's Ringmaster

Prologue

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Iain Martin
Jul 11, 2025
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The sky was washed a peachy shade of pink, but the figure in the hood wasn’t looking out of the window. It moved past the small vertical opening in the stone wall without giving it, or the burning sky beyond a second glance.

The room was dark, and the movements of the figure were indistinct, hard to focus upon in the dark. Grey upon grey, black upon blac…

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