The Watchmaker's Will"
The complex metal mechanisms rusted instantly before his eyes, the gears seizing up and smoking heavily before dropping completely dead from the ceiling onto the floor.
Ethan walked calmly up the grand marble staircase and pushed open the heavy double doors leading to the private study.
The Silver Monarch did not look up immediately. He kept his fading, watery eyes fixed on an old, scratched photograph of Ethan’s grandfather that lay in the center of the desk. "You look so much like him," the old villain whispered, his voice raspy, weak, and filled with a bitter nostalgia. "Arthur Vance was an absolute visionary, a genius ahead of his time. But he severely lacked the cold, brutal ruthlessnes