The Golden Greenhouse
The banquet hall of the Ashworth estate did not smell of roasting meats or spiced wine, but of ozone and wet iron, a metallic tang that clung to the back of the throat like a forgotten secret, while the chandeliers, which had once held crystals cut in the style of the old republic, now held only bare, humming filaments that cast a sickly, pulsating amber light over the tables where the guests...
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