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The Votive
A hooded figure watches the rain-slick city from its rooftops, bronze details catching the cathedral glow. Margot Baines, known as The Votive, returns stolen records to displaced neighbourhoods and leaves a candle burning when the truth is home.
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Under the rain-dark towers of The Nine Bells, The Votive moves across the rooftops with a watchful eye on the city below. Bronze-edged armour and a shadowed hood catch the warm light spilling from cathedral windows, while wet stone and night rain close around her.
She is Margot Baines, a stained-glass and photographic-plate conservator who steals back falsified records from the charter council. After returning a record to its neighbourhood, she leaves a candle burning in a chapel window: a small, steady sign that the truth has come home.
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