Trigger Warning

There’s nothing worse for the collector than encountering a drunken artist, unless he’s famous for being drunk, and you are not, dear.

The lunatics—they were brought here, sometimes. Got their name from the moon, it was only fair the moon had a chance to fix things

It was haloed by the light, and shimmered, and I could not have told you how near it was or how far away.

Calum MacInnes dangled from the end of the rope.

we overtook an old woman and a man

I heard them, and could not stop hearing them, and sleep was hard in the finding that night.

He had his way with her, beneath the sheepskin that covered that bed, and before he did that, he beat her for feeding us and for letting us in.

Calum set a sober pace and I walked beside him, taking two steps for every one of his.

‘They said they drew lots fairly, but I do not believe it.

I told him of his father, who never came back from the sea – some said he was dead and lost overboard, while some swore blind they’d seen him running a whorehouse in Amsterdam.