Midnights in London
It’s the late 19th century, industry is booming, and the British Empire is expanding. However, a threat looms over the unsuspecting denizens of London. Exhausting all other avenues, the British government enlists the help of the mysterious Mr Daim.
Join him and his trusty sidekick, Captain Robertson, as they rush to stop the Terror of London.
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Chapter One: The Voyage
This wasn’t the first time Mr Daim found himself voyaging halfway across the world. The nature of his work had taken him all over the globe, from the imperial courts of Peking to the dense jungle forests of the Amazon.
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Chapter Two: The Meeting
It was from these very rooms Britannia commanded her vast empire. Mr Daim was about to enter the belly of the beast.
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Chapter Three: The Body
It wasn’t uncommon to see unnamed labourers lying dead in unmarked alleyways. What was uncommon, however, was the nature in which this particular labourer met his fate.
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Chapter Four: The Interrogation
Realising he could finally get some answers out of the mysterious Mr Daim, Captain Robertson put down the menu, crossing his arms, “so, according to you, genies are real?”
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Chapter Five: The First Midnight
With one last burst of courage, Captain Robertson swiftly slipped into the room, pistol raised, to find a figure by the window dressed in black as thick as the midnight sky.
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Chapter Six: The Exorcism
The monsoon had arrived late this year, but arrived it did, and to the people of Mallianwala, it was most welcome.
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Chapter Seven: The Hunt
Captain Robertson exited the hotel to find a clean-shaven Mr Daim leaning against a cabriolet, reading Shakespeare.
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Chapter Eight: The Second Midnight
As much as Captain Robertson would have jumped at the chance to sit this out, the Duke had tasked him with keeping a close watch on Mr Daim. Orders were orders, and good soldiers followed them.
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Chapter Nine: The Truth
One moment, they were in the confines of the little office overlooking the factory floor. The next, they were somewhere else entirely.
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Chapter Ten: The Third Midnight
Something larger was afoot, and Mr Daim was going to get to the bottom of it.
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Chapter Eleven: The Betrayal
My job was simple: use my knowledge and power to expand the territories of the Company.
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Chapter Twelve: The Haze
Captain Robertson awoke sometime later – how much time? He wasn’t sure – to find himself in a place he did not recognise.
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Chapter Thirteen: The Fourth Midnight
Having seen the unseen, how could one return to a life of willfully blissful ignorance?
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Chapter Fourteen: The Double-Cross
In his hands, he held the key to untold power. And, oh boy, was it intoxicating.