The Golden Crossing
The ink on the ledger was still wet when I noticed the smell. It was not the sharp, chemical tang of iron gall, nor the dusty, vanilla scent of old parchment that usually clung to my hands after a day in the archive. It was the scent of ozone, thick and metallic, the kind that precedes a summer storm over the Atlantic. I wiped my fingers on my tweed trousers, a nervous habit that had survived...
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