The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

by Natasha Pulley

it’s cold in here. I didn’t tell anyone I was coming, there’s no wood.’ ‘Let’s go and stand outside for

Thaniel kissed

waiting for someone to wind him up again.

bad habits but she had wanted not to know Thaniel’s,

Lord Carrow came to the house. He said nothing, hit Thaniel in the face with his riding crop,

I threw him out of Japan,’ Ito said.

his neck hurt again, he

I’m not allergic to anything but yellow liquorice allsorts and those haven’t been invented yet.’

husband’s best friend, who can remember the future,’

only a clockwork copy of one with a clever veneer of character.

the back of her neck prickling

thinking was far more dangerous now.

you must know that this was all a magnificent trick.

I’m sure he’s said that it was all so unlikely that

he didn’t recall, but it’s so beautifully organised. Cogs don’t make themselves into a watch in the wind.’

you won’t mind terribly if I divorce you,’

You are my best friend, you have always been that. I worked for Ito while I waited for you to grow up.

He seemed to see that he had frozen and, very slowly, in a way that looked as though his gears were being pulled in the wrong direction, finished the knot of his scarf.

I was on the train from Paris to Berlin.

Mutsomuto was still in 1884??

It

was missing some nonsense, a bolt from the pivot or something. God knows how it came off, they’re big things. Lucky,

He pulled something out of his pocket.

It was a heavy-duty bolt.

Did Akira Mutsomuto take the bolt from the train in order to make it stop and take him back.,and so avoid being taken to Berlin and instead got to where Grace was The Lost future of Pepperharrow starts in October to December 1888.