The Golden Circuit
The ink in the well was black, but the letters I carved into the wax were gold. It was a practice of the old house, a ritual that had outlasted the kings who built the stone and the priests who blessed it. We did not write to the future; we wrote to the past. We inscribed our sins, our debts, our small, petty vanities into the soft surface, sealing them in amber until the next scholar came to...
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