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Deleted. If you still want to read this message me and I will send you the story.

It's not...
Just a few minor nitpicks.

'denarii' is plural. 'denarius' is singular. Latin, you know. (a bit of trivia: in the old form of pounds/shilling/pence, pennies were represented by 'd', which did indeed stand for 'denarius').

The bullet itself narrowly missed my suit jacket and hit the brick wall behind me at terminal velocity, sending chunks of fire baked clay and cement flying.

'terminal velocity' specifically refers to a falling object, at the point where air resistance prevents further downward acceleration. A bullet travelling laterally is not in free fall.

I completed my spin, moving forward as I did, until my back was against the stunned mugger.
The commas make it much more readable.

A curious stacked triangle symbols, reminiscent of an hourglass was branded into my flesh.
This sentence doesn't quite work right. Perhaps 'symbol' rather than 'symbols'? Also, a comma after 'hourglass' would make it more readable.

The experience was just a touch too surreal.
Typo.


Apart from that, nicely started. However, the overall problem is that the protagonist seems to be uncaring about basically everything. There's no personality showing through, nothing for us to latch on to and relate to. But I will be watching to see where this goes.
 
Just a few minor nitpicks.

'denarii' is plural. 'denarius' is singular. Latin, you know. (a bit of trivia: in the old form of pounds/shilling/pence, pennies were represented by 'd', which did indeed stand for 'denarius').



'terminal velocity' specifically refers to a falling object, at the point where air resistance prevents further downward acceleration. A bullet travelling laterally is not in free fall.


The commas make it much more readable.


This sentence doesn't quite work right. Perhaps 'symbol' rather than 'symbols'? Also, a comma after 'hourglass' would make it more readable.


Typo.


Apart from that, nicely started. However, the overall problem is that the protagonist seems to be uncaring about basically everything. There's no personality showing through, nothing for us to latch on to and relate to. But I will be watching to see where this goes.
Thanks for the advice, I'll correct those errors sometime today.
I was kind of intending the SI to come across as mildly shell shocked and apathetic, at least at the story's beginning.
 

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