The Golden Ritual
The bread was still warm when Thomas left the bakery at dawn, the paper bag tucked under his arm like a secret he couldn't quite keep, and the air outside tasted of wet stone and the metallic tang of the river that cut through the old quarter like a scar that refused to heal. He was a clerk in the municipal archives, a man whose life was measured in the precise, cold hours of the clock on the...
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